I agree. Maybe on reason copying a news site doesn't work is that on the Onion I like to read everything whereas on a news site I only want an article or two. The new onion doesn't make reading everything as easy as it was before.
The upcoming Slashdot Redesign contest is intended to be more about design than architecture
Architecture follows design, design isn't painted on. What you're talking about is decoration. If I may wander off topic a bit, (on Slashdot? No!) "design after architecture" thinking is one of the main reasons there's so much bad software.
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I agree. Maybe on reason copying a news site doesn't work is that on the Onion I like to read everything whereas on a news site I only want an article or two. The new onion doesn't make reading everything as easy as it was before.