Deadline Advisory: Comment On Format

COMMENTS (236)

• Sorry, hate it. Want to see stories on first page.

  Comment by anon — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 11:33am PST  Reply to this post

  • Just blend LA/NY/London on the same blog. give us at least a couple of lines of content so we can see if we want to read it. Actually the different city headlines should be different colors. Mostly I hate the clicking around but I am willing to give it a chance. But do you have to make it difficult?

    Comment by Kate Kahn — Saturday March 6, 2010 @ 7:22am PST  Reply to this post

• Not crazy about this new format, actually I kinda don’t like it at all!

  Comment by megajohnson — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 11:35am PST  Reply to this post

• I like the idea of sharing eachother’s headlines on the respective page, I just wonder if there is another area on the page where you can list them.

  Comment by Anonymous — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 11:35am PST  Reply to this post

• I like the old format where the story is already loaded and ready to read…. please go back!

  Comment by Jennifer Davis — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 11:37am PST  Reply to this post

• Keep fleming’s on the new york page, and nikki’s on the hollywood page
  otherwise it is ridiculous
  if one or the other has something to add to the story the other one wrote,
  then that can be on both pages
  otherwise it feels confusing and like one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing

  Comment by PJ — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 11:39am PST  Reply to this post

• Ugh…at least put back the 1st paragraph of the post. This looks like an attempt to drive up page views with no benefit to the user.

  Comment by will marks — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 11:52am PST  Reply to this post

  • Agree – sometimes a headline won’t grab me, but the first sentence would.

    Comment by Ted — Saturday March 6, 2010 @ 7:53am PST  Reply to this post

• Readers may get used to the headline format…one problem is that clicking the back arrow, up top, for homepage return doesn’t work!?

  If you stay with this header style, though,(and yes, it’s the oldest trick in publishing to get readers deeper into *a newspaper’s pages*), then would recommend second pages offer advertisers a new placement at ‘content rates’ where you have presumably longer eyeball time.

  You’re welcome. (And if DH ever charges a fee, may I get a few months free?)

  Comment by patience is a blog-view — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 11:57am PST  Reply to this post

  • I can’t navigate either using the back arrow. Did you figure out how to do it?

    Comment by John — Saturday March 6, 2010 @ 2:01pm PST  Reply to this post

• Hate it. Please stop with the headlines only. Thanks.

  Comment by jason — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• I like the way the new layout works. Now make a mobile version of the site.

  Comment by Anonymous — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• sucks – go back to at least 1-2 paragraphs

  Comment by concerned shareholder — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:04pm PST  Reply to this post

• I like DH & DNY stories on same page but can we have a few words of the story BEFORE the jump…it’s kind of a pain to have to click through every story and/or guess from the titles to decide whether to read on.

  Also we don’t all read on mobile devices so while hiding video or photos behind the jump is fine for lower bandwidth users and I can understand hiding them, text should not be 100% hidden.

  Thanks

  Comment by VDOVault — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:04pm PST  Reply to this post

• I liked it much better when one could just scroll down because you can quickly scan the article and make a quick decision on whether or not you want or need to read that article. The new way takes time to switch back and forth to the main page as well. The beauty of the site besides being ahead and more informed than other news sources was that you could just scroll down and cruise. Can we go back to the cruising style soon???

  Comment by RH — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:04pm PST  Reply to this post

  • agreed. I want to know a little bit before I take the time to click on it and read it.

    Comment by cookmeyer1970 — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 9:37pm PST  Reply to this post

• I’d really enjoy not having to click every link, especially as someone who checks the Deadline on my cell phone.

  Comment by Quinn — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:05pm PST  Reply to this post

• Really not loving this new format. I like to come to your site and browse the stories 2x a day without having to click on a headline to see what it’s all about. That’s just my opinion though…

  Comment by Apple — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:06pm PST  Reply to this post

• hate it. need to be able to see some of the content… dont want to have to keep going back and forth between the headlines and stories.
  the old format was perfect, stick with it.

  Comment by no thanks — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:07pm PST  Reply to this post

• Please have the 1st couple of sentences in the DHD NY posts. Having no idea what an article is before clicking on the link and realizing it’s something I didn’t think it was isn’t awesome.

  Comment by Jamie C — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:09pm PST  Reply to this post

• Not a big fan of the new format. Why should DH and DHNY be separate? Just put everything all together like one blog. It’s confusing like how it is now.

  Comment by Brian — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:10pm PST  Reply to this post

• Not a fan.

  Comment by Carl — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:10pm PST  Reply to this post

• I may be lazy but I liked having the whole story in front of me without having to click the link. It just feels boring now, Like a step backwards.

  Comment by rainyday — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:12pm PST  Reply to this post

• I hate the new format. Before it was so easy to come on to this site, breeze through the new posts and get caught up. This constant clicking back and forth is really degrading my user experience with this site.

  This was a great web site. Why mess with perfection? Please go back to the old format.

  Comment by Stu — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:14pm PST  Reply to this post

• piss on it.

  Comment by Me — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:15pm PST  Reply to this post

• I could live with it if only clicking on a headline automatically opened a new window, or even better a new tab in the same window. But as it is, the homepage disappears and, once finished with a story – or after getting the gist of it – it’s necessary to keep going back to the home – which I think has statistically proven to be a method of driving users away.

  Hey, it’s not like food poisoning. But users tend to find the back and forth process tedious or annoying, and so move on faster than they will when they’re able to just dance back to the home page window.

  FWIW

  Comment by Comedymaven — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:16pm PST  Reply to this post

• Definitely not feeling the headline only action. I like the way you had it before with the preview of the story as well…

  Comment by Jay — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:16pm PST  Reply to this post

• Hate it. I like to be able to scroll through the many stories. It’s especially easier when I’m looking them up from my phone.

  Comment by anonymous — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:16pm PST  Reply to this post

• Truly unappealing.

  Comment by nyguy — Friday March 5, 2010 @ 12:20pm PST  Reply to this post