Further to that, it doesn't cast a great shadow over what you're looking at, has an incredible resolution, comes in many different sizes, and doesn't send information about what you do with it to the manufacturer/NSA.
The new site can be improved by rolling back to the existing site - or even previous versions.
IMO, the best layout is the firehose layout where all I see are titles. I get to see a lot in a little amount of space. The new site is so full of wasted space (eg: Sony is selling Viao - do we really need a large picture of a viao netbook? This is supposed to be news for nerds, surely we would know that Viao is a laptop)
Crap for the sake of crap is nothing more than crap.
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