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Dobba Jenkins

On The Verge since Nov 24, 2011

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Dobba Jenkins

On The Verge since Nov 24, 2011

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    Exactly the same thing here. I just don’t care for reading it as much as I used to before the redesign. I can only put it down to that – the design – it’s pretty awful and darenI say – amateurish. The layout is just one big mess focused primarily on shiloving tons of ads down you throat. On mobile and desktop, I’ve gone elsewhere. I still read some of but – just not as much as I used to.

    The whole site feels a little deserted. Like there’s no community any more.

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    Mine have drastically decreased since the new design. I just don’t find it as inviting any more and it’s an eyesore with too much advertising (eight one one small page yesterday) and too much info. I’ve started using other tech sites much more the past few weeks.

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    Immigrants to Trump: Why are you blaming us for terrorism?

    (Ironic when you consider the US kills more innocent people per year than dem pesky ‘terrorists’)

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    I have (she’s older now) and it still only takes 30 minutes maximum.

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    And here in the UK.

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    90 minutes grocery shopping? What? Are you buying the entire store in that time?

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    . . . and after posting, I can see that this page I’m on now is mostly adverts, one huge one at the top, two to the right and one at the bottom.

    Maybe you should have a few on the left of the page to balance it all out.

    An while I’m here – the footer is the biggest mess of typography and alignment I’ve ever seen.

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    I wouldn’t buy a car with that much leather either.

    However, this is an unnecessary item to be wrapped in leather for. Just because you can; doesn’t mean you should and this is completely pointless.

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    Methane produced by cows is a bigger problem than CO2.

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    I’d have to disagree with that but obviously, it’s subjective.

    That said, since the design change I’ve found myself reading the verge a lot less. Something about it now turns me off it. Not sure if that’s the design or that it’s just not as friendly as previously. It’s just too much info on the pages – seriously needs trimming down and simplifying.

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    We may have Brexit, but we also have some of the best adverts in the world. UK adverts, especially at Christmas, are better than the TV shows that book end them.

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    Because I don’t see the need to increase animal suffering in the world by wrapping it up in the skin of one.

    You obviously feel superior in your choice with your trophy however.

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    "Blah blah blah . . . "

    The World forgot its needs rotated around you and sends its apologies. :+1:

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    For me, at present, on desktop it just looks broken. Big spaces and gaps – adverts have big black spaces around them for a leaderboard sized advert (the same Creative Market advert I’ve been seeing for weeks now).

    As with all things I’ll probably get used to it but I do feel like I’m reading Engadget – this doesn’t feel like a good design change – it feels like you’ve ripped off Engadget’s design and added some ‘neon rave’.

    The pages seem overly cluttered and busy – over the past day I’ve found myself reading less because it’s just information and advertising overload. ‘Read this next’, ‘recommended for you’, ‘now trending’, ‘the latest’, more badly sized adverts – all on the same page. I’m not sure what others are seeing but for me, it’s just a car crash.

    The footer is also all over the place – on this page it’s one size that doesn’t resize with the links and info all over the place – on the home page it’s full width and it looks like text leading went out of fashion.

    I’m sure there’s lots to iron out, but currently, yuck!

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    You could just stick a USB in a CDJ and have it play your predetermined setlist instead while jumping about making the crowd go wild with a ‘put your hands up’ chant every now and then.

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    As a designer, you don’t use a mouse or a graphics tablet, which are far more accurate?

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    Does it really matter? If you’re a designer especially, you’re using a mouse and/or a graphics tablet. The only time I’m using the mac touchpad is if I’m sat on the sofa browsing the net or mobile and not able to use a mouse easily. It doesn’t get touched otherwise.

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    "As there will be different types of headset pricing, the resulting VR experience will differ"

    Will this result in fragmentation? Surely, for VR to move forward they need to deliver the best experience possible and watered down versions that are just ‘good enough’ will only serve to scupper this. For me, one headset that they work on and better each time would be better rather than the experiences being different depending on the tier you pay.

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    I’d like to add to this, that the gaming PC I built (i7 6700, EVGA GTX1080, 500GB SSD, 2TB drive, Gigabyte Z170X-TH5) along with a 2560×1440 27 inch Asus monitor cost me about £1800 (UK). I couldn’t get that kind of power in a Mac if I tried. A top spec Mac Pro would be £4-5000 at least, maybe more now the price has been hiked up in the UK – it’s now cheaper to fly to Canada and buy a Mac including flights than buy it in the UK.

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    I kind of have – or I’m in the progress of doing so. I’ve been an Apple/Mac user for about 25 years – I’m a designer and it’s kind of the route you take. However, I’ve never been one for Mac vs PC wars – a computer is just a tool to get the job done; the client doesn’t give a hoot what platform it was created on so long as the work is good.

    That said, Macs are just not powerful enough these days and they only pander to casual consumers – not the ‘pro’ market (whatever a Pro is). I also wanted to start using VR so recently I bought all the parts and built myself a high end gaming PC (GTX 1080) that I will perhaps migrate my software to (Adobe Creative Suite and Cinema 4D). When (if) the drivers come out for the GPU I’ll see if I can Hackintosh it – if not, I may start going PC.

    I like Mac OS – Windows I find a bit of a pain and the stability of Mac OS is also a plus point. Apple’s hardware is also well built and rarely have I had any problems with it in those 25 years.

    I don’t think Apple are innovating anymore – Google and Microsoft (among many others) are doing far more these days, though Microsoft are making up for lost time having done little in the past.

    I was genuinely excited when I saw the Surface Studio – Apple’s announcement of new Macbook Pro’s did little for me and in the past I’ve been genuinely excited and look forward to Apple’s keynote speeches. Maybe I’m getting older now but Apple doesn’t have that same shine they once had. Profits are all they seem to care about – Tim Cook I feel is great at that part of the business but he lacks vision. They need some Moon Shots.

    So, I still use Apple hardware day to day (phone and computers) but I’m looking at Windows PC’s more and more.

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    No – it’s not £1 to $1.

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    It’s not 1 to 1. £1 = $1.22 at present. Not sure where you’re getting that info from. You’re also not allowing for US taxes on top of the US price stated here.

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