Hi Burgers!
Since we launched the new Cheezburger, we have provided everyone with the opportunity to opt-in and try it out. This has given us some really great feedback, but we want more!
On Tuesday, June 26, some of you will automatically land on the new Cheezburger site. This means that instead of clicking to opt-in, some of you will be redirected to the new Cheezburger. You will still have the option to opt-out, but we do hope you’ll tell us why. We are doing this so we can get even more people over to check out the new Cheezburger. This will give us the opportunity to hear more feedback about your experience!
We would love to hear what you think about this or answer any questions! Please feel free to post a comment here or email us directly at contactus@cheezburger.com.
Sincerely,
Emily, Will and Heather (Tofu, dollydally81 and poppylady)
Cheezburger Community Team
Oh dear. You would have to pick my birthday to dump us in the beta soup up to our necks. Sigh. Frankly, as it stands now (12:43AM EST), Beta is hard to look at (WAY too WHITE!!). The referrals aren’t there (many love them- I did too!), the HUGE ads at the top totally suck- if they are trying to be ‘referrals’ they totally fail- you can barely see the top of the first lol, the drop down lists of sites take up too much space for something written in such a small font, either enlarge the font or shrink the size of the drop down window- also TOO WHITE, the ‘thumbs up’ should be first, so we can scroll straight from the ‘thumbs up’ to the ‘favorite’ button, the itty bitty icons for ‘who faved this’ do not tell us WHEN they were faved by each (I miss that), the button on fps for comments is almost impossible to see, the credit for the lols are still too tiny as well, I shall not even enter into discussion of the fact that the only comment section on any lol has a big “FACEBOOK COMMENT” over it!!!!! You all know my feelings about that!! It is patently obvious that people are not going to like this. Duck and cover, people.
Hi hmph, first off, happy birthday! I’m happy to see you commenting here with your feedback. We haven’t had much feedback about the carousel of content, announcements, and ads at the top, so thanks for letting us know that it seems confusing to you. We are still working on making the navigation experience better, and we plan on making the layout less white. As we have talked about in our emails, there will be some changes to the content layout that include moving the voting buttons and making the favorite button more intuitive. You can still see who and when someone adds your LOL to their favorites on the “Fans of my LOLz” page. The avatars you see below the post include not only who has fav’d your LOL, but also who has reposted it to a Cheezburger Site. The credits for the LOLs will be made bigger soon. Non-Facebook comments are coming soon, we are just trying to get the terms locked down. You can still choose to opt-out of the beta. The new Cheezburger is still a work in progress, and we love getting objective feedback, so thanks again!!
Thanks! $:) Well, I do what I can. $:D Everything I stated was ‘as it stands’ at the time. I await with bated breath the improvements. I am mostly pleased with the new cheezburger comments, I still think that the faceboop comments belong BELOW the cheezburger comments (we are not second-class citizens! Nor are we an Afterthought! Faceboopers are the visitors and should have to scroll that extra bit to get to a comment specially made only for them).
The carousel is irritating because the ones that are ‘not ads’ aren’t actually the lols… they are pictures of the lols without only a vague reference to the real ‘cleverness here’, they actually ARE ‘ads’, but ‘ads’ for the lols…annoying! and when you go to them it is just going to that particular lol, …and then nothing. The best thing about the referrals was that you could go from referral to referral to referral, it was an adventure, each time you clicked on a referral, there were new referrals, they took you places… this carrousel just takes you to the one lol and it is a dead-end.
I can see the potential of the beta.. but I am missing the list of the other pages at the end of the page… maybe making them into lists on the side towards the top of the page… idk.. but I miss them with this beta.
Everything but one is fine with the new site. Where are the comments?!?! I can’t find anywhere to read the comments which is 80% why I come here daily.
Hey there KellieKAT! To access the comments on beta, you can click on the comment bubble icon to “Join the Conversation” or you can just click on the title of the post from the front page. Currently, we only have Facebook comments available. You can comment using your Facebook account, or you can use a Yahoo!, AOL, or Hotmail handle if you have any of those accounts. Very soon, we will have a new commenting system that you can use through your Cheezburger account. We are excited to launch this, and we’ll let you know here on the blog when it’s up and running! Thanks for your feedback!!
There is no reason for the comment bubble button to be so tiny compared to the others. How do you expect people to see that? D:
Either make the others smaller, or make it big enough to see.
(Not to mention, going back to check them out, the numbers are getting cut off by the other buttons)
Just wanted to add that I also think the comment button is too small. I would not have found it on my own. I only found it because I read this page.
I do appreciate that the voting is back! I always enjoyed voting and seeing the total vote tally on each LOL.
So, in other words, you need to share the handle you use for other sites with this site.
And I don’t see any bubble icon to “Join the Conversation” either.
good – for a moment I was afraid I’d have to get back to facebook. good to hear that it won’t be a requirement. Also nice to see the return of the ratings.
I can’t seem to upload my pictures anymore… !!
Hi Les, we will send you an email to troubleshoot your upload issue.
I live the new layout but its a bit glichy on my kindle fire. I don’t know if other mobile devices are having problems as well but I cant get the drop down menus like I can on my laptop. As a note I could see them when the beta was first launched.
Hey there zulu! Our developers are working on fixing the bugs that users are experiencing on the Kindle. We apologize for the inconvenience!
I intuitively don’t like it. At all. I want to opt out. How do I do that?
There is an opt-out link in the upper left side of your screen from the front page of ICHC, Fail Blog, Memebase, and TDW. We are sorry to hear you don’t like it! Any particular reason why?
In my case, all I’m getting on this Beta is an endless scroll of lolcats, most of which I’ve already seen, because I’m a daily visitor. There’s no longer any access to the links to the rest of the cheezburger network, many of which I also like.
Eric Hines
Thank you for your post. The links to all of the other sites live in a drop-down menu from the big blue menu bar when you hover your mouse over the different names (ICHC, Fail Blog, Memebase, etc.). We are still in the process of making this easier and a better user experience.
The only thing I like about the new layout is that the cheezburger bar is always visible, you don’t have to worry about going to the next page, and the fact that you can like or dislike a submission[but that's only because you got rid of it in the first place!]. Otherwise it’s not very sleek, and the layout is confusing. I actually stopped visiting the network for a while because the beta irritated me so badly.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, babushka! Changes to the layout to make it less confusing are coming.
What turned me off on the first time I tried the opt-in was the post titles on the right sidebar. It’s still the thing I dislike the most. I know it’s not a big deal, but the title way off to the side of the post creates a disconnect that wasn’t there previously. In the previous version everything you needed to see about a post was in one nice, easy to scroll column, your eyes statyed focused on the content and the important information about the content (Title, comments access, etc). Now I feel like I have to search around the page just to find what may be a funny title or an inside joke, or partial meme explanation in the title. From a content consumption point of view it’s far worse and slows down the process. The end result, for me at least, is that the title and any other associated content won’t be read or accessed.
Think about it from a content layout perspective, when you read a news article, where is the title? Att he top of the article, not shuffled off to the side like a naughty child in the time-out corner. Because we have been wired from very early on to view content as:
Title
Content
Related
The changing of that to:
Content____Title
____________Related
Just doesn’t make any sense to me. It’s like the site has been turned half sideways and is an instant turn off. I’ll be re-opting out of the beta because of this.
Just to reiterate (and sorry for the misspells there, was being a little too fast), or to say in a different way perhaps…
Previously you could simply scroll down the page keeping your focus and attention on the central content column and this would give you pretty much everything you needed/wanted from the site.
In the beta, you can’t do that, you have to scroll and keep shifting your focus around the page, from the content column to the related content in the sidebar. This may not seem like a big deal, but it completely breaks the flow when reading the site.
Also, the comments button, it is very tiny… :/
I’m right there with you Louis, and I think you said it very well the first time.
@Will… more comments on this subject…
In what I like to call the alpha version of the site, all the stuff you want to see that’s immediately associated with the LOL is right there (although much of it has been downsized and is now very difficult to see). What’s off to the right-hand side of the page are the search feature and what’s going on related to various sites and comments. If you want those, they’re right there. If you don’t want them, you just don’t look over that way.
Because I use Mozilla with AdBlockerPlus (Hallelujah, Praise Be!) I’m not bothered by the constantly changing and flashing ads, which are a real burden to anyone who has trouble focusing. But the few times I’ve looked at the alpha site on someone else’s computer I’ve been able to (mostly) tolerate them because they are off to the side. From the few times I’ve ended up at the beta version (clicked on the wrong button, durn it), I don’t recall seeing any of the extras (like who’s saying what where). Are those in that top bar someone mentioned? If so, then you have to scroll all the way back to the top to see them AND with no finite page length, that can be a long way to scroll. It also loses where you are on the page so when you’re ready to scroll back down you have to figure out how far to go. The continually expanding page length doesn’t help.
Overall, I like the layout, but I have to agree with Louis.
If you’re transitioning to a more horizontal layout for each post, I think even swapping the title and text with the photo/video would be a great improvement. (Text on the left and video on the right).
Right now, I am choosing to opt-out. However, I know this won’t be around for long.
I agree with Louis, it doesn’t flow with the right to left reading, or just a single column.
Also, the even bigger issue? It locks up my entire netbook for well over 2 minutes at a time and raises the video temperature insane amounts. It is too much of a graphical overload for those with low end computers/netbooks.
I completely agree with Louis. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Also, rather dislike the overwhelming white of the page. Another difficulty I am having is the comments aren’t loading, which in and of itself is fine. But it leaves my page with a lot of blank space that I have to keep scrolling through.
The feature I DO like is having more pics without having to click through so many pages.
Not liking it much… regular visitor to the site but the white has to go! Prefer the old idea of the Network at the bottom where I don’t have to look for what I want to go to. I’m going back to the old site mostly because I’m not a big fan of change, but mostly because I like the way it works now.. why change it?
Hi Louis, thank you for your great comment! You’re not the only person who feels this way, which is why we are happy to tell you that we’ll be trying out a new content layout that addresses your concerns, particularly that the title will be moved back to the top!
Glad to hear it and I look forward to trying it out.
I have been using Cheezburger for a short time, and am very used to the beta, as that is what I started out with. Personally, I like the white background because it doesn’t draw my attention away from the content I’m looking at, although my opinion is not everyone else’s. I would also like to inquire that you do seem to be getting a lot of hate on your new beta layout. This is very common among drastic changes, because people normally like things how they’re used too, no matter how much improvement the website may have had; I’m not saying everything has been improved, but I’m not saying the improvements have taken away from the big-picture of Cheezburger. Facebook, the largest social network in the world, has made many drastic changes to their website without full consent or approval of the people who use it, but they still have so many people using the social network despite how many originally-unpopular changes have been made. Having an understanding of human psychology, I can explain this phenomenon through the mere-exposure effect, meaning that repeated exposure to something will eventually make people develop a likeness to it. All of the people who are giving instant disapproval of the beta without reasonable input are most likely ignorant, but they’ll come to terms with the new Cheezburger in time. Now, what I was originally going to say was: You should add custom backgrounds to the site!! It would settle the dispute really easily.
I do not like anything about this new layout whatsoever. The old layout was easier to navigate, the most favourited lols were easier to see and read, the new thumbs up and thumbs down method is not as good as the original, and as hmph said, it’s far too white. I could go on, but right now, I’m busy finding this opt-out button.
Oh, and something else I forgot to add: I’d be happy if we could have an option to change the Dolan section to the old memebase format. Or at least, if such an option exists, make it easier to see.
Hey there PinkHuggable, since the Dolan site is new, we decided not to give it an old Cheezburger version. We’ve also been learning a lot from this site in terms of new Cheezburger vs. old Cheezburger. Thanks for sharing your input!
hi guys
I LIKE IT. Im not real geeky so I dont know about all these comments but I like that I get MORE pictures on 1 page and dont have to click “next” every 4 or 5 pictures. Im still figuring it out but it seems good. I am also interested to load it on my NOOK Tablet and see how that goes.
BTW your sites are my favorite ones to waste time on the internet! I check all these sites almost daily: ICanHasCheezburger, LolCats, Wedinator, ROFLrazzi, LFMF, Failbook, and of course VeryDemotivational. Occasionally if bored I also like MthruF and ParentingFails.
Thanks for bringing all the lulz (and sometimes squees, too)
Thanks everyone for your comments! Any new comments that contain feedback that has already been addressed in the above posts will not be approved. Thanks! Please feel free to send additional input to contactus@cheezburger.com.
I’m wondering if a hybrid combining one particular beta feature with one alpha feature is possible – page length. As far as I can tell there is no finite page length on the beta site. I’ve spent hardly any time there, so maybe that’s wrong. Maybe the pages are just way longer than at the alpha site. Personally, I like the shorter, finite pages. They help me gauge which days are busiest and then I know about how much farther I need to keep looking so I don’t miss any new LOLs.
But… I used to use Windows on a PC and I also used to have less reliable cable internet. So I definitely understand why changing pages frequently can be a real problem for some people.
So… instead of an alpha style page with maybe 5-6 LOLs per page (for LOLcats, some sites have more)… and instead of the endless beta style page… how about something in between? Perhaps a finite page length but with more LOLs, say, 10-20?
Even better, why not start a new page each day. I know you post LOLs at set times every day. Just pick one of those times (say the first of the day relative to ICHC HQ time zone) to post new items to a new page. With one page for every day, it would be sooo easy to find something you know you saw within the last week or so, something you may have forgotten to fave or that you want to go back to the comments section for… given a normal *NON*-Facebook comments system ever returns. We’ve been hearing it will only be “a few weeks” for several *months* now. Anyway, a new page every day would helpful in lots of ways.
As far as other feature changes go… I love 99% of the alpha site and I hate 99% of the beta site. But since I feel users have no choice in whether you guys continue to pursue beta as your only version, I won’t bother to explain. It totally bites to feel virtually helpless as to whether something I love(d) has to change so drastically, especially when it’s not one of the Life’s Big Changes that can’t be avoided but is instead supposed to be a fun thing that can be however those in charge want it to be.
I love this idea! I’m a roll-with-the-changes kind of gal, so I was actually diggin’ the new look, until the endless loading made it impossible to watch the videos or scroll smoothly thru the photos. If there is a way to shorten the pages, I confess I didn’t find it because I was too stuck to navigate by the time I realized I needed it.
Overall I actually like the new look, though. I don’t use as many of the features as a lot of the people commenting, so I can’t speak to all the issues. More LOLs per page…like a a full day’s LOLs on one page…would be good. Endless LOLs on one page….too much of a good thing for my laptop, I guess!
I would like to opt out because the new site isn’t user friendly. Can’t even tell which site your on.
I love the new layout. Less scrolling and easier navigation. I say keep it, guys. Good job!
Thanks Marie! We appreciate hearing your kind words:D
I do not like being restricted to the main pages- I want the links to the sub-blogs at the bottom! Not having control of what you are seeing is very unappealing. It’s like being force-fed crap you don’t want. Respect the customer’s desire to control the experience.
I echo the above comment that the site did not need change. New Coke!
I really dislike the new layout, particularly the position of the titles (which I see you’re going to fix, yay!) and the scrolling bar at the top. It’s very distracting and not necessary since as far as I can tell it just goes through the posts in reverse order and I’m there to look at the pictures anyway.
Yes… PLEASE make the pages more linear again… The whole thing of having to look left to right is frustrating. If you really HAVE to do that, at least put the titles on the right. I miss the old format.
I visit your site cheezburger to relax and laugh at the silly pics at the end of a long day. The titles on the right are not cool, as some others have said, and the glaring white is not conducive to a relaxed experience. But the top toolbar seems more organized, cleaned-up even. I realize the site takes lots of your time and I hope the negative input is not clobbering you because I for one really appreciate your work, keep it up!
We like your point regarding the “relaxed” experience. Thanks for sharing, and less white to come!
So much more difficult to navigate.
I like the links at the bottom of the page.
Please return those.
I wasn’t redirected there, I went voluntarily to give it a chance. Don’t like it. Among several things folks above have mentioned it stinks that the smilies/emoticons don’t work. They are a lot of fun. Miss the ‘Who’s talking’ list too.
I also didn’t see the tabs for ‘contact us’ and so on that are very convenient and no way to search for a lol using key words, which we can do on the old site.
Very good point, bluesfan473. We are going to provide a tool that lets you contact us easily from the new Cheezburger pages. You can always email us directly at contactus@cheezburger.com or you can post on my profile, Emily’s profile, or Heather’s profile (must be friends with us). The links to our profiles are always in the blog posts.
The white is too bright. The formatting of title/content so on isn’t right.
My main point of annoyance aside from these two is that I need to hover over buttons to get a menu. I very much preferred to go to Memebase or Failblog and have a list of the popular subtitles: Failbook, LFMF, etc readily clickable. I admit I pretty much only surf this site while and work and I am alt tabbing between screens frequently. Having to wait for the hover menu is a huge kink in being able to go directly where I want as quickly as possible.
Also, the hover menu is HUGE with such teeny tiny titles in it. Why is it so big when the words are so small or vice versa?
If you are “approving” feedback, then it’s not surprising that you’re not getting much feedback…
I finally found the new submissions area in beta, but it seems to be undifferentiated, lolcats and everything else. I much prefer . I much prefer the old version in which the cats are, for the most part, grouped with other cats, etc.
Hey Sue, we are not approving feedback that is exactly the same as comments that have already been posted, and we don’t approve comments that are particularly negative or unnecessarily hostile. Cats are still grouped with cats on the new Cheezburger LOLcats site. You can find this site by hovering your mouse over “ICHC” on the top blue bar and click on LOLcats. Thanks for your comment!
Like the layout. My biggest problem is to navigate some of the features is not intuitive as I have mentioned on ur DB, just posting again here for the record. Drop down menus requires one to somehow know that clicking on ICHC or Memebase will show the other sites available. On the old ICHC u could see at a glance the sub-sites available in the top bar and again at the bottom of the page. Many will not notice the itteh bitteh link to the right of the LOL to “see more”. Traffic to those sites will decrease. The comments feature is totally “invisible” – c’mon – a tiny, tiny grey square that u have to click on to get to the comments feature! Much user friendly would be “Comments” highlighted. Access to the company blog is at the bottom in a small greyed out bar that most will not notice. I liked the “Search” feature that allowed one to search for FP LOLs by key words such as Basement Cat. Which brings up Cheezburger Confidential – it was an easy intro to the ICHC icon Kittehs like Basement Cat that are a charming part of ICHC Their identity will eventually be lost. Font size remains an issue. Really appreciate the continued opporunity to comment. But some of these issues have repeatedly been mentioned in the past months (like font size) and are not being changed which leads me to believe they will not.
Hey Sylviag! The techies are definitely aware of all of these concerns. I know that some of these changes seem like they are never going to come, but some things take longer to build than others. Our developers are working very hard to build an awesome new Cheezburger, and we really are listening to the feedback! The comments feature will be bigger with the new layout changes. Cheezburger Confidential is on the roadmap along with so many other features and such that we will be working on. Tofu and I have been discussing ways to make the blog more Community friendly. Font sizes are going to be bigger and easier to read with the layout changes. We apologize that some of the requests are taking a long time, but we want to implement them as best as we can. The beta is still being built, and these comments here help us keep the conversation going with the community. Thanks for sharing your thoughts here!
Is it possible to turn off the infinite scrolling? I can’t find the option, if it exists, and I kind of need it.
Are there still pictures that have “share”? I can’t seem to find them. I love to post a couple of these on my facebook page everyday!
Never mind I found it – although it was easier before (sigh).
1. I prefer pages (or the option to see all)
2. Why does everything have to link to Facebook? Pretty much kills the concept of Cheez for me.
Hi there deprogrammed! Thanks for sharing your preference with us. All of the content has a “Share on Facebook” button because lots of users enjoy sharing what they think is funny/cute/etc. with their friends and family on Facebook. You are not required to use this button. We also have the “Post To…” button that lets you add posts you like to your favorites or to your Cheezburger Site!
I don’t like it.
I prefer the old layout, where only a handful of pics are loaded at a time, and where i can simply flip a page. I visit every day, so i don’t need to download a endless stream of pics.
Furthermore, this is a bandwith and memory hog. I have to pay for bandwith, to get dozens of pics i dont want. And my browser eats all available memory, instead of running ‘light’.
Also, i do not wish to visit every site, just a handful of favourites. Navigation between these are more difficult / impossible now. I need the block of sites at the bottom of the old page.
My last complaint is the look/feel of the new site: it’s ugly. Big, blocky – like the previews i’ve seen of Windows 8, but overl bright.
Large fonts: you are yelling at your users, like they are stupid or something.
I’m a photographer, and spend some time designing and balancing every picture. Sorry, but there is no balance to the new site. It’s just loud, for no purpose. It rubs my sense of aesthetics up the wrong way.
I’m sorry. The old site had it’s flaws, but it was a better deal for me. Please let me have that back.
Hello Kim ‘The_Pirate” Christensen, thanks for sharing your feedback with us! We are currently working on making the loading of the sites easier on your bandwidth. Which sites do you only look at? Let us know and we can show how to navigate to them easily. We are going to be making some design modifications to the content layout. We certainly don’t want you to think we are shouting at you, and we definitely don’t think anyone is stupid. We appreciate hearing your design input!
Hello Cheezburger Peeps,
Did you guys just get a Pinterest Account??? I see an account on Pinterest now and I’m just wanting to make sure it an official Pinterst Cheezburger Pinterest Account and not jsut someone pretending to be you guys. If it’s real then way cool cause I love Pinterest! Here’s a link to the account on Pinterest. http://pinterest.com/cheezburgerpins/
Thanks,
dasd68
Hey there dasd68! Yes, this is indeed the official Pinterest page! Happy pinning!
No specific complaints about the new layout – except I might agree with the first post that said it was too white – but how do I get back to the cats only site that I was getting used to? Don’t want to have to scroll through an entire page of referalls to other cheezeburger network sites. I visit some of them, but don’t want to wade through them to get to the reason I’m here first thing every morning – cute cats…
After going back, I agree the new title placement is weird. On some of them the title was what pushed it to true genius – now I find myself missing many of the titles. And I still can find the cats only page! Arg!
Now, for someone that wants to opt out, is this a long-term thing? Or are you going to eventually force us to use the new version? The new one is alright, and I’m sure many people will like it. I just prefer the classic, more organized version. It’s more fitting to the way I like to visit these sites.
Hey Andi, unfortunately, infinite scrolling can’t be disabled. However, infinite scrolling is not compatible with Internet Explorer, so you can use that browser to see the page by page navigation. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Lemme get this straight…. You work for Cheezburger and by extension, Memebase, and you’re recommending Internet Explorer? My world is coming to an end!!!!
But seriously, I don’t really like the infinite scrolling. I think you should definitely have more on a page than what you already do, but not infinite.
Also, the title has to be moved bro. Please.
Other than that, I’d like to say, that I really actually like it. Thank you for your hard work
Hey there! LOL, I wasn’t recommending anything:D I was just letting you know about your options! The title will be moving soon, and we are definitely going to address the performance issues. Have a great 4th!
We just released our new Cheezburger commenting system on the new Cheezburger! This non-Facebook version will allow you to easily join the conversation by using your Cheezburger account. Try it out!
Just tried the Cheezburger commenting system from the beta side. I couldn’t find any indication of how to get there, but by double-clicking on the LOL picture I accidentally got to the commenting screen. My comment was uploaded and displayed without trouble, but it only shows on the beta side; it doesn’t show on the “original cheezburger” side with everybody else’s comments. And the order of comments is newest-at-the-top, reversed from what we’re accustomed to on the original ICHC. So it’s better than having to join Facebook, but useless for the purpose of communicating with my fellow Cheezpeeps, so I don’t think I’ll be back to the beta side for a while. We appreciate that you’re trying to address our aversion to Facebookery. Kthxbai!
“This non-Facebook version”…. Ha
Hey, on my IPhone 4, I go to the mobile version whic is pretty much the beta version. When I click “take me to the full site,” I remain on the mobile version. It’s annoying, so please fix it.
Hey there Mike, sorry to hear about your trouble! We can’t seem to reproduce this. Have you updated your iOS lately? Or, could you try clearing your cache to see if that helps? If not, let us know either here or shoot us an email to contactus@cheezburger.com. Thanks!
I have updated my iOS, and I still have the same issues.
Hi Mike, thanks for the information. I just sent you an email.
Hey Mike, yes, I sent to your yahoo email address. Could you check your spam filter or shoot us an email at contactus@cheezburger.com? Thanks!
OK, first of all, anyone who DOES NOT LIKE the new Cheezburger is just crazy, because the old Cheezburger sites SUCKED programatically, the new ones are SO much more optimized and faster. Well done folks!!
Also, am I noticing that in IE10 in Windows 8 Cheezburger sites have “live scrolling”? How awesome is that!
Hey Doug, thanks for sharing your feedback! We are happy to hear you’re enjoying it!
The new layout isn’t bad… it’ll definitely be better with the titles moved.
My issue is that The Daily Wh.at is horrible to try to read in the new layout. Having all the links on the side just doesn’t work at all. For the first few minutes I scrolled through most of it without even seeing them! And if there are more than a couple they get cut off.
The Daily Wh.at needs its own layout.
Hi Taela Dragonfox,
Thank you for your feedback about The Daily What. We have been discussing how we can better layout The Daily What since that site has more writing and links. We added the See More links at the bottom of text that has more than 8 lines to help with a large block of text just being on the side. If you click that, you should be able to see the rest of the links. Let me know if that doesn’t show the other links for you. Thanks Emily
It helps, but having all the links on the side for the Daily What breaks up the flow and makes things less convenient. I am used to everything being lined up neatly in a single column, and it worked. The new layout simply does not work with how the Daily What is written. I do not mind it for the other sites, but I always switch back to the old layout for the Daily What.
I’ve been using this since Beta came out. Like the navigation drop-downs. Don’t mind the white so much. Like the infinite pages a lot. I think a lot of work and thought went into this.
I miss the Comments very much. I miss the ability to choose what kind of content I see. (e.g. the GIF of the Pelican eating the seagull was very upsetting to me, but there’s no way for me to say so or to flag something as inappropriate or objectionable or even to see what other people are saying.) I miss the ability to leave feedback easily. I miss the Search function very much. I just can’t find it anywhere on the new site. I’d like to see it on the banner.
Change is always disturbing. I think most of your changes are thoughtful and that you’re trying to make the experience good. I check in every day for a smile and a little distraction. I like being able to e-mail my faves to friends. Keep up the good work. I do appreciate it and I am getting used to it. Thanks.
BTW — one more thought. I’m not at all crazy about facebook. and I use it as little as possible. I’d be glad if you kept your functions local to ICHC rather than depending so much on facebook. (No, I just don’t trust ‘em. I don’t think they care at all about me or my privacy, and I think you do.)
Thanks for the P.S. /s/ c2
Hi C2! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and your kind words as well! In regards to comments, we just added non Facebook comments yesterday evening, so if you click on the speech bubble, you’ll see that there are Cheezburger comments underneath the Facebook comments. If you want to flag content that you feel like is inappropriate, please click on the title of the post and then you’ll see a flag image. Click that and you can send us an email about the content. We are working on bringing Search back and after we fix some issues, that will be back on the sites.
Overall: I dislike the beta site.
The layout is confusing. It doesn’t make sense to have the title to the LEFT of the image. Either above, or to the right would make much more sense.
The page seems confusing. The ads on the side are huge, distracting, and interrupt my reading.
The dropdown menus seem awfully large. The hovering “About and Contact” button seems super out of place. It doesn’t need to be there.
I miss the lists. I liked seeing all the articles on a This&That post. I don’t like having to click on the “read more” button.
The simple, classic, previous page was a much better page.
Oh fabjous day
Thank u so much for bringing back a Comments feature that can be used with only one’s ICHC account. That has been a major Beta sticking point and u all listened and fixed. Kudos!
I’d opt out if I could figure out how. Current setup does not allow me to connect from Lolcats-to Graph Jam-to Rolfrazzi- to Pundit Kitchen-to Historic lols.
Hi George, If you would like to opt-out of beta, you can go to the top left corner and click the Back to the Old Cheezburger image and you will be taken back to the old version of our sites. We are also working on redoing our navigation as well. We hope you’ll let us know what specifically you don’t like about our beta version. Thanks!
I like it a lot, it’s really convenient to put things on my favorites or sites.
i’m having to come up with some fairly creative ways to get around a public library filter now. never had that problem before. library PCs don’t like streaming media / bandwidth hogging stuff.
It is borked. the links to the other site in your network don’t do anything. Clicking “take me back to old Cheezburger” when I see it.
Hi Brian – Are you still having issues with clicking on other sites in the network and not having it go to the page? We had a few issues today, but they should all be fixed now. Thanks!
Having issues viewing the sister sites. The hover menu does not work at all today.
Hi Tiny Hay! As you mentioned, there were some issues with our site today, but everything has been fixed. Let us know if it hasn’t. Thanks!
Also, having the titles on the side is a lot more distracting, it was much more continuous to be able to scroll down and read the title as the pic came along
Hi I_lovecats – We are currently working on a new layout where the title of the post will be back on the top. Thanks!
Why must people always try to “improve” things that were perfectly fine to begin with? This is hideous. I feel like my retinas have been assaulted. I’m here to see cats. That’s it! And I did try hovering over the ICHC at the top as suggested in a previous post – it simply didn’t work. On the rare occasion when I like to check out other sites, I prefer the small links with pics at the bottom of the page.
Judging by what I’m seeing on the beta material, people such as myself, who post anonymously, will no longer be able to do so. To post appears to require an account with Facebook, Twitter, AOL, or some such. Is this correct?
Hi Confused – We have non Facebook comments now! If you scroll past the Facebook comments, you can see our Cheezburger comments and you can post anonymously.
Good day, just wanted to tell ya I liked the beta run. Much cleaner, easier to access and love the FB comment function coz I can see how well received the comments are! But recently I’m encountering some issues, most importantly is when FB notifies me of someone replying to my comment, it just doens’t load if I go thru that channel. And sometimes after clicking ‘join the conversation’ it doesn’t load up the comments section. On a whole, thanks for the upgrade to the Cheezburger Network! Its always a great place to visit to relieve some stress after a day at school and dealing with irl trolls! Kudos~ Hope the comment section gets fixed soon!
Hi Jerome! Thanks for the feedback and the kind words! What browser are you using? Is the problem happening all the time or just certain times? Please feel free to email us at contactus@cheezburger.com and we can help troubleshoot the issue.
Hi Emily, I use google chrome. But it seems to be working now. I could’ve just tried going in during maintenance work or a period of high traffic thats why it didn’t load. Thank you very much~
I am unable to find the search box. Perhaps this was already mentioned in a previous comment, but do we have plans for an addition of the comment box?
Hi Angie- We are fixing our search feature currently and will bring that back when it’s issue free. In regards to the comment box, was there something specific you were looking for? We have a comment box when you click on the word bubble, but are you looking for another option? Thanks!
Hello, i reckon the pages is too long, it is too much memes on a pages. So shorten down the pages, and when you want a new pages you click next. That makes it more interesting
Ok you have chaged it, good.
I liked the old system (by which I mean the beta in place a few days ago) a lot more since it eliminated the need to wait for pages altogether.
The mousover menus aren’t working anymore and neither are the voting buttons. Also the feedback button isn’t appearing at all.
I may be in the minority, but I liked the new layout – never-ending page and all. Less loading time, simple navigation with the toolbar on the top of the page, less ads over the screen, and I even preferred voting for a meme without seeing the score beforehand. But today, the ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ buttons were back and I could no longer use the J and K shortcuts. Please bring back the old new version!
Hi drachehexe and WarrenD – The site was having some issues today, so everything should be fixed now. Let us know if you are still having issues. Thanks for your feedback!
The thing I hated most about the old Cheezburger was that loading a new page took 10-15 seconds on my 1 MB/s connection, and in that time my browser was so busy that I couldn’t scroll to see the parts that had loaded already. This was fixed at first in the beta when pictures would stream onto the page as I scrolled, but this was recently removed, and the page buttons were put back in place. It seems kind of unnecessary to make your users wait for the page to load when you used to have a layout that was much smoother.
ICH HASSE DIE NEUE MEMEBASE!!!!! It makes me so mad that i’ve started mumbling auf deutsch when i go on. the voting buttons aren’t working
also, i don’t seem to have a favourites anymore.
Sorry… just don’t like it
harder to navigate,,, i don’t need to think too hard on the old site
I’m missing the random button.
I really don’t like the new system. Tries too hard. It’s a website, not an iPad, people are here for the content much more than the aesthetics. It was fine as it was. Unless the change is for browser compatability issues, then I’d scrap it.
This new lay-out has its good and bad aspects. I really like that the page is never-ending, like Tumblr. The only drawback is that it’s hard to pick up where you left off it you don’t visit Memebase for a long period of time. (And yes, I used to read 20-30 pages in one sitting just to make sure I hadn’t missed anything funny)
The background is far too white, granted, and I don’t know if it’s because I have adblock, but I miss all the charming little pictures on the sides, ads for your own t-shirts and that sort of stuff.
People sometimes say that change for the sake of change is no good, but they were wrong in this case; I feel it was right to change this layout, even if I find it bothersome at first, and I really hope you work out the kinks. (It takes AGES to load, and my computer krashed once – in your websites defence, I was watching a movie on YouTube at the same time, but still!) The site feels fresher and newer, and more trendy. Just incorporate more things that made us feel warm and fluffy and “back to good ol-Memebase again”. Take notes from Cracked.com.
Cheers! //Winifred
Hi Winifred – Thank you so much for your feedback! We are working on a new layout which should address the too white background issues, so hopefully that will help with your experience.
Overall I don’t mind the new layout-except that when you do a list of links (like the lunchtime links for example) half of them are hidden. Adding that extra page that I have to click through to see if I even want to check out any of the external links is annoying. Maybe you could split these posts up so that all the links are instantly visible?
Accessing the new memebase makes my laptop freeze for about 4-5 seconds. Using firefox 13 and Win 7
Hi, I’m a frequent Cheezburger network visitor (and have been for years) and a web designer. I think it looks very nice, but it loads slowly, and is constantly loading, and therefore the scrolling is about as smooth as Egyptian whiskey. I checked it on all current versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari and the same result. So, other than the loading issue, it’s very nice. Hmph, the first post at top, doesn’t know what they’re talking about. They probably made a bake sale flyer and think they have an eye for design.
Keep up the good work!
First: Absolutely! Yes! The constant down-loading is annoying and jerky. AGREED! Second: I am glad you are a frequent visitor. Are you a ‘long visitor’? Have you spent hours staring at this screen? I have. All this WHITE hurts. Third: I never said anything about having ‘an eye for design’. I merely related my ‘user experience’ and exactly what about that experience was unsatisfactory and painful (WHITE!!!). ‘User experience’ is something many web designers have been (unwittingly??) trained to ignore in hopes of pleasing their professors or impressing their middle management with ‘uniqueness’ instead of ‘user friendly-ness’ or satisfying the advertisers by covering the ‘first impression’ of the site with their ad junk. Fourth: Please don’t make assumptions about me. You don’t know me. Fifth: Have a nice day. $:)
Love the new layout!
The main thing I noticed makes the site less intuitive is that the titles pictures are on the right side of the photos, whereas before they were above the submission. We don’t read from right to left, so it’s awkward. I always liked reading the title above the submission before seeing the actual submission, and now it’s not as easy to do so.
Hi engima_sigma – We’ll be rolling out a new layout which will address the titles being on the right side. They will be moved back to the top of the image. Thanks!
My main problem is clicking the “see more” button on the link lists and such.
Well I for one love it – only thing I’m not too pleased about is that the logging on process has become quite difficult as it tries to log you on via Facebook, which I don’t want.
I really don’t like the endless page set up… it makes me irritated that I can’t get to the bottom of the screen.
It is a lot harder to read on a full-HD display. Would be much better if it is aligned a bit to the left.
Can you please add an option to change the color of the Background?Like Black,White,Red,Orange etc.
oh noes !!!! where are the titles ??? and bottom text ??? :’(
I don’t care for this new mode much. Looks too simple, like the mobile version of a website.
Every time I load the webpage, my computer COMPLETELY HANGS for for 10-15 seconds as it loads. And my computer is far from old or cheap.
It’s really pissing me off and I’ll likely stop checking the website if this continues. Optimize and remove whatever is doing this. I’m on Firefox with Windows 7. I know I’m not alone.
I don’t like it. It’s too big and I feel It doesn’t look right, like I can’t fit it all in my screen and when I zoom out the words are too small.. Just keep the old cheezburger, everyone likes it that way. maybe add likes and dislikes, because I like being able to do that without having to post it on facebook. Please Please PLEASE don’t make this site mandatory.
I fear change, so I was momentarily confused and sad. Then after way too long I figured things out – the titles were on the RIGHT side! I think half the funny is in the title ‘intro’ – it’s the comedy appetizer, right? And we read left to right, uh, right? So it doesn’t make sense to me why they aren’t on the left. And the ad sandwich is a little overpowering at times, especially when it’s the same ad. But I know that’s kind of the point.
Hi NcCathir! We will be rolling out a new layout where the titles will be back up on top of the image, so hopefully that will help with your beta experience. Thanks for your feedback!
I really liked the old one, it is easy to navigate and has all the meme’s lined on the side for easy access. the new one is harder to find the memes, I couldn’t find rage comics or challenge accepted, etc. pls stick with the old one.
I don’t like it. There is no titles. I used the titles to see if the videos were actually worth watching. And it is hard to read. It isn’t easy on the eyes.
I do like the Cheezburger bar though.
I like the new layout to be honest, but a lot of the things on the front page take a little too long to load.
Oh – and if you make it mandatory to like or comment via facebook or other site, I wil NEVER comment or like!
The day that you get absorbed by FB will be a sad one indeed for the rest of us. (Though will probly be a great one for y’all!)
Hey – stop and think for a moment – you got this awesome with what you have been doing – improvements, fine, but don’t go making drastic changes to the good thing you got.
I haz a sad. It’s too bright, too white, and the captions are way too far apart. I’m just not that interested in the comments. I liked the easy access to caption and recaptioning. Really don’t like the design at all: doesn’t have a whole lot of identity. I’m sure someone worked hard on this, but it’s not pleasant. I’ll access the old one for as long as it’s available.
Good to hear the titles will be back at the top. I find that the comments below the photos are taking forever to load. I just skip to the next posting, but for some reason it is just taking forever.
Do not like ever loading page. It was easier to say ten pages off now before.
frankly it is hard to read. it requires too much head swivel to just look…. change is a good thing just not this time.
Is there any way to see who the OP of the pic is? I don’t even see a name
I like it alright, just would like to be able to search the archives better. That system is absent now and even when it was there it was pretty bad.
I haz a sad. This new beta version triggers the content blocker at work, so now I can’t view it.
How I use this site: Go to failblog.org start reading, scroll scroll scroll, next page 2, more haha’s scroll scroll, okay saw that yesterday, click link at bottom for Failbook, repeat for Poorly Dressed, repeat for After 12, repeat for Bros, File Save As for certain Bros (wink wink) repeat for Autocowrecks. Ensure employees are working. Repeat for Rage Comics, repeat for This Is Photobomb. Start work day, unless its Friday, repeat for Monday Throught Friday, repeat for WIN!.
How I use the new site: Go to failblog.org start reading, scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll oh why won’t this end scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll where are the links to the other pages I like? scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll didn’t they used to write funny titles to these things? scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll why can’t they just leave things the way they are? WTF, when did I become my mother? scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll, maybe something is wrong open IE, wait the old site is back on IE, OH GOD, I’m using IE, I have become my mother! YOU did this to me YOU, this is the end I can’t live like this….
Sadly, everytime I load this website it freezes my computer for a minute and then goes slow as can be while the page is up. Can you please switch it back or is there anyway I can view the old look?
Like that there are more pics on one page, don’t have to hit next page as often.
Like that the tabs are gone at the top-less wasted space. But, the new previews are too large.
Don’t like titles to the side; I forget they are there. (not a problem on the animal pages, more so on the Fail pages.)
Don’t like dropdown menu-prefer it laid out.
Cannot find Work Fails anymore.
I’m ecstatic that liking and disliking is back. I missed that very much when you took it away. My only minor nitpicks are how the buttons for that are positioned and how big they are. Thumbs up should be on the left, and perhaps you should make them a tad smaller. I suppose having titles back up at the top whilst retaining information to the side would be a better presentation as well. Less scrolling to read information required I’d think. Please, never EVER make certain features Facebook only. It’s a disturbing new trend that leaves a sour taste in my mouth when it rolls out on another site. It excludes folks who come here and do not have a Facebook account. I shouldn’t need one; this isn’t the same place! I’ve noticed this new design is a bit slow on the loading end of things, more so than the last version and my computer is running on high-speed internet with Chrome and Windows 7. Ouch.
Again, THANK YOU for allowing everyone to vote again, because that was my biggest gripe against the previous Cheezburger set-up! I’m sure you’ll get all the kinks worked out soon enough. Cheers!
YOU MAKE TITLES GO BACK ON TOP, ALL GOOD -THEN CAPSLOCK COMES OFF
I’m enjoying the new layout! I like the scrolling feature so I don’t have to wonder if I’ve already seen what’s on the next page or not. I just scroll until I see something familiar and then switch to a different area of the site.
The only oddity I’m finding is: my brain thinks its backwards to read the title of the post to the right of the picture. It wants it either up top (like before) or to the left. Other than that I’m loving it!
not a fan of the new layout. on less-powerful machines it’s super slow, i stopped coming here in the last few days although i used to stop by every day. i’m also not too fond of the “show more” now found on longer posts half-way though a paragraph – i quite enjoyed on the old page the quick overview given by the this&that section. i don’t watch the videos anyway, so while i’m complaining i’d also like to say that i’d prefer more pictorial content. the caroussell at the top is a bit unneccessary, just takes up space and i try to get away from it as soon as it loads (which takes for ever). but the worst i think is how slow it’s gotten, really not an enjoyable experience.
I’d like to opt out please, these are some of the reasons why:
- my eyes are accustomed to first read the title, then see the picture, then read the text. You have picture first, which my brain “reads” as like it’s a banner (only banners have no title), then I have to manually scan for the text which is to the right (again, brain and eyes not used to it as 99.99% of internet, magazines and books have title, picture and text one above the other). It’s just not user friendly, I come here to relax but you make my eyes and brain work and that’s not fun and enjoyable
- TDW isn’t just pictures and videos – one of the most amusing things are the texts describing the media, and you put that on the right side where it’s more difficult to read (you have to tilt your head, it’s not in the center of your view); previous design put the media and the text in the same part of the view which was much better
- “show more” on This & That is bad. I’m mostly interested in the bottom stuff (Tea Time) so I have to click show more instead of just looking at what I want to look at (I know it’s a first world problem clicking one more time, but you made it from no clicks to more than no clicks which is opposite of improvement)
- font size seems rather small (maybe it’s the same as before but it “seems” at least 2-3 sizes smaller than before)
- “Post To…” and “Share on FB” squares are way too big, eyes keep moving towards them instead of the text I want to read
I love TDW and the whole Cheezburger network because you’re the sunshine of my day when I’m at work, you make me smile and feel smarter when you teach me new things. Keep up the good work, hugs and kisses!
I like the new layout on sites like Icanhascheezburger – but I honestly miss the titles for each post on sites like Must have cute, where it’s not always obvious what you’re looking at.
Dudes, while I appreciate what you’re trying to do with the new format (infinite gifs!) Every time I try to view your website, it grinds my workstation to a halt for 10-20s – And I’m working on a 12 core, 24gb vfx workstation, with Firefox.
Could you try and optimise it a little more pls?
Thx.
Plain and simple, I wish there was some sort of breaking point with a “next” button or something. It just goes on forever and ever making page navigation a bit tedious and awkward.
Sorry but I’ve been forced to use your new dogfood sites for months. I visit thedailywhat and geeks.tdw almost daily – first you started detecting my HP TouchPad with webOS as a “mobile” device and serving me the mobile version, which flat out didn’t work. But that got fixed. Then for the last few months, for some inexplicable reason, I have only been able to view tdw through the “new” site – tapping the “back to the old site” button doesn’t work (although geeks.tdw still uses the original site, oddly).
I don’t have any real complaint about the new site design besides it being so chronically slow. The old design was heavy, but this is unbearable on my TouchPad – I have to open any Flash video I want to watch in a new window and close the tdw window before I can play any of it at more than 10 fps. This also makes it a crash menace, constantly making the webOS browser panic and force reload all open pages.
I beg you, get rid of this new design or do some profiling and find out why a 1.5ghz dual core tablet with a gig of RAM can’t handle it.
I forgot: I hate having to tap a “see more” link too – scrolling past a block of text is far easier than either moving a mouse to an arbitrary point on the screen or having to tap a tiny text link (which, in the case of the “news roundups” on tdw, causes more problems since there are often news links mere pixels away from the “see more”, so half the time I end up on a different website looking at a news item I don’t care about), plus with the new side-by-side layout you’re already saving a huge amount of vertical space.
Not liking the remarks to the side, sorry. Also I miss the re-caption and view all captions buttons. I found out about your website in 2010, and still prefer the accessibility and ease of use for that layout. I have adapted to the new one, but the newest one is a bit less, as a cat one put it, “…to my interests.”
I am glad to see the comment above as I write, states a return to “intro” above image. On a side note, please give the chairs and bookcases their own focus sites. I like the bookcases, but they detract from the theme.
It looks really weird. The text is too small, and I liked it better below the image/video.
Why change it?
Really?
Why?
There’s too much stuff going on! The cheeseburger and facebook icons are too big. Bigger than the text bit. No need for that.
I have one (big) issue with it; The image names on your servers follow the format ‘random digital garbage’ instead of ‘post names’. This leads to all kinds of usability issues from inconveniently clumsy file names upon saving your favorites to the fact you can no longer filter certain set of images from appearing (i.e. people who love all creatures but dogs can’t filter them out with *dog* wildcards).
I hope it’s not just me, but my computer freezes every single time I open the Video Games section on Memebase, which started the first day the new format rolled out. Aesthetically, I like the old format better.
The continuous page is rather silly if you want to go back to the beginning… Very silly idea considering the amount of history you have on some of the sites. The paged version is so much easier to navigate.
It’s also failing on chrome.. Get to about 20 entries and it will sit there forever trying to load more.
Hi, I love the design. I love the white. It allows the photography to stand out more and actually makes the images look better. I like that everything utilizes the space better so you can fit more stuff on a page. Speaking of page though, what I don’t like is that this is a giant continually scrolling page. While I understand the benefits of that, I gotta say that sometimes I jump off a page and then go back, I’ve got to wait for the browser to catch up to get back to where i was on the page. I’m just not that patient. I’m good with click next. to get to a new page.
Nice job on the mobile.
Hated what you did yesterday with the takeover advertising yesterday. I almost vowed to never come back to cheezburger site. Don’t do that again.
The only thing I don’t quite “get” about the new layout is that you have to manually make the little non-pictured links appear. I liked being able to casually browse those news stories without having to scan for “Show More…” buttons. Love the site though!
New version locks up my computer. Waah!
Hi.
I like the new design, but most people hate new things, so i could imagine a lot would be against it.
It is a lot more simple, doesn’t take as much space, and it is nice to look at.
I only have 1 suggestion and 1 problem. Suggestion is, that you should be able to turn on and off the infinite scroll. Not that i have any problem with infinite scroll, but it has it’s cons. And my problem is, that i like to press “J” to get to the next picture
Ugh…horrid. Who the heck wants to read a website from right to left? Half of the funny of this site is the headline and caption that accompany each picture. It took me far too long to scan right to find the headlines and captions. The human eye just doesn’t intuitively do that. The new site is fine if I could still scroll top to bottom for all my humor needs. But this having to scan back and forth is frustrating and getting old. Thanks for giving us the option to opt out.
‘Don’t fix what aint broke’
Although there may have been bugs and issues and a whole lot of stuff I don’t know about that was wrong with the website before, for me it had always been fine, it seemed homely somehow. But now, it’s sleek and moder looking, which is what I dont like.
It really is all personal preference for me, and I do not like the new format.
Make it so that comments from people who use the old cheeseburger also appear in the comment section for people who uses the new cheeseburger.
The J and K navigation do not work properly. J doesn’t anyway.
One J will line the top of the next post with the top of the screen. Another J will line up the same post; ie. no observable change.
To get it to work properly, you need to hit the J, nudge the page down a bit and then hit J again to get to the next post.
J and K have never worked on M thru F.
Hi Not Happy – What browser are you using? Our CheezTechs tested the J and K buttons and they should be working properly. If not, please let us know or email us at contactus@cheezburger.com Thanks!
The ‘Leave another comment’ link on this page is broken. It does not let you leave a comment but takes you to the top of the comments others have made.
From there, you need to scroll aaaaalllllllllllllllll the way to the bottom. Having the link to something useful would help. As would having the comment input form above the comments.
I really dislike how “tied in” to facebook it is – even the colors! – and how defaulty to facebook it is. If I wanted to be on facebook, I’d be on facebook. With the never ending page, how do I go back to the beginning?
Loved it! Became lighter and – what not to say it – cuter! Keep going
chesbergr pls.
I think (so is just my opinion) you did really wrong in make a big change in the site.
Changes are good, but not all at once, the old site was kind of old, sometimes laggy but the design per se was OK.
Also the “loading more when hits bottom” sucks, I don’t like Paging but I think an small link/button with some intuitive text would be much better than infinite scroll.
Regards,
Ergoox
I generally like the changes, but it is functionally inferior on mobile devices. I ca’nt hover over the bar at the top with a touch pad, so I have to type in the address manually if I want to go other places on the site. Are there any plans for a mobile-friendly version?
Although I finally found the links for the rest of the network pages, I really enjoyed the thumbnails at the bottom of the page on the old format. Those seem to be long gone. The white background flat and too bright and the titles are way off to the side. Half the humor of some of these pics is in the title, why would you move it away from the image? I’ll be opting out of the new format for as long as I can.
It’s not bad an effort, but having the title of the meme/lol to the right of it rather than directly above on the left ruins some of the jokes and isn’t very natural to look at for native English speakers/readers. Agree with comments on the adverts – too large, too stacked and too many. Personally, I still miss the community aspect, I enjoyed swapping collectibles with other people on the site and so don’t visit as much now as it’s not as fun.
Using the site on my blackberry is a disaster. It needs to be more moblie friendly like the old site. I’m not even able to re-vert it back to the old side the ‘opt out’ option hyperlink doesn’t work properly on phones. It has limited my access to the site.
i enjoy seeing all sites at the bottom of each page, or at least an all sites button similar to the older design, great job though and thanks for all the lols thru all the years!
i really dont like the endless scrolling. Im using a laptop and just keep the mouse clicked on the scroll bar and scroll down the whole time i am looking/ reading the pictures. now with the endless page every so often it loads the pictures farther down. when it does that it repositions the scroll bar back up towards the top of the browser but if i dont notice that it had done that i go to continue scrolling down and my mouse is no longer on the scroll bar but i still have the button clicked. it ends up bringing me back up towards and i have to scroll down through all the pictures i already looked at to get to the new ones. not sure if i explained that in a way that makes sense or not but its really frustrating.
I hate it. If you’re keeping it, please keep the “go to the old format” choice. the new one is hard to read and has a lot of junk I never use.
I cant even find the search box -_- beta fails.
Also takes forever to load, and my internet is rated 95% in the USA. Annoying.
I love the new site! Only problem is that my “I’ll go to bed after this page” doesn’t seem to work…
I don’t like the new cheeseburger. Not only because it is a new layout, but because there are no definite ending of pages. while most people go from page to page anyway, they are still those who like to (try) to limit themselves. Its very unsettling to be start scrolling and end up on page 22 3 minutes later.
I haven’t figured out how to comment or read the comments yet.
I suppose one has to have the Twit or Failbook thingy, which I don’t do.
So I suppose I will leave for good.
You removed “That will buff out,” and lost most of my interest, anyway.
Well, it was fun while it lasted. Goodbye Cheezburger.
The scroll down is jumpy and a bit glitchy. Also I’m not a fan of the text on the side
I find the new layout (which I have been forced to view by the rolling beta, not by choice) TERRIBLE. It looks, reads, and scrolls like a really badly-coded tumblr page. And you do not want to imitate a badly-coded tumblr page.
It is also nearly inaccessible to people who, by reasons beyond their control, are forced to use older browsers or older computers. It takes longer to load than dial-up used to, and the visibility could be a major issue to those with screenreaders, or poor eyesight in general. Accessibility is more important than imitating the aesthetics of popular social networking sites. Please do not do a facebook and reconsider some of the changes, or at the very least, allow cookies to permanently redirect to an old version of the code for those who can’t load the site. Else, I will be forced to stop browsing this site altogether.
No reply necessary.
The new layout has one fatal flaw for me: I can’t pinch zoom on my iPad with the new site. Half the content is just a bit too small for me.
Will,
With respect, I assume you have made a business decision to go ahead with this new layout, and that the feedback you are asking is not “should we do this” but “WE ARE going to do this, how can we make it better”
Honestly, the fairer question is “how can we make this totally sucky thing suck less hard”
I have read the first, maybe… third of comments available on this page, and what I notice is about an 85% negative vibe.
In summary, please hold on to the opt out feature for as long as is viable, as I will probably cease using these sites should the option disappear.
More like 95%.
This new layout sort of reminds me of the new VW bug that came out; sanitized, needlessly shiny and rounded, too bright, too plastic, too soulless.
please send me back to the old site. I really and truly hate the endless scrolling
[though i do prefer not having the 'like us and save a kitten' rubbish]
Endless scrolling is really irritating. I like to scroll at my own pace my constantly clicking the scroll bar, but when the page autoloads near the bottom, it jumps me ahead about 5 or 6 entries and forces me to go back and forth constantly. It really rustles my jimmies.
Post titles are too small and I don’t understand the placement on the left of the content. Top right is the first place you look, but now the first thing you see is the post content and then you have to look to the right to see what it’s about — that’s the wrong way round.
I wish the facebook comments weren’t integrated. I always liked the fact that the different cheezburger sites had their own flavor of avatars — I like not having to see people’s faces in the comments. The whole site looks too similar to facebook for my taste. If I’d want to be on facebook, I’d go there in the first place.
Also, I miss the nice box layout of the comments. It was just really functional and made things easy to read. The box layout may not look super slick, but I couldn’t care less, to be honest. I come to this site purely for the content and not the pretty presentation.
Hiding the navigation links to the different sub-sites in dropdown menus is a big mistake, if you ask me. Having them accessible in a single click is a great advantage to me. I never use dropdown menus on any website unless I really have no other choice.
One more thing: having a serif font for the reply composition field and a sans font in the posted replies isn’t a good idea. Just keep the fonts the same please.
I really don’t understand what was wrong with the old layout — title ON TOP, content, voting number of burgers/thumbs down below, clearly structured and easy to read comments.
For me the bottom line is: the new site design doesn’t look bad, but gives a seriously worse UX.
Meh .. I guess webdevelopers and graphic designers need something to keep them off the streets and from ganging up on old folks trying to sell them cheap landlines or whatever horror they would unleash if they weren’t busy beta testing and designing graphic. They’re like racoons in a way. You’re done with it and throw it out but they just can’t keep their hairy little paws off and tears into it with the enthusiasm of little children shredding xmas wrapping paper all over the floor. Do we really NEED a new layout? Does this new layout need a new background colour? A different font perhaps? Facebook is ofcourse the worst one yet unless you count that insanity Microsoft dumped on their hotmail-users a couple of years back, I still have nightmares about that one. I wake up some nights all covered in sweat screaming about login restrictions and a spamfilter that filters everything EXCEPT the spam from Microsoft. So I guess the new cheezburger isn’t THAT bad.
Do not like. The visual and informational flow of the website seems to be disrupted with the defining text to the right. I like to see the title of the image and the image itself in one shot. Instead, now I’m fighting to read the text on the right, and focus on the image at the same time. This back and forth motion causes me to lose interest in the content almost immediately, because surfing the site seems like a chore.
Titles at the side are a bad move, the eye needs to flick side to side constantly that causes eye strain and takes more time to take in the information, it also makes it harder to use the site on smaller screens especially on portrait as you can resize to a single column.
You’ve also messed up the favicons again (at least on chrome)
I like that your trying to inproove the site, but i dont see the point in simplfy everything so everyone needs to work out how to use the site and all the tools are hidden.
Too much all at once. Couldn’t you ease us into changes rather than a total re-fit. Put me down in the ‘I don’t like it column’.
i hope that the new look to the sites stops crashing my browser soon. it is very annoying and i often don’t visit the site anymore due to the constant crashes
I think the new design is rubbish. Why? The old design worked perfectly and everyone was familiar with it. Why fix what isn’t broken? I understand that for some people to feel like things are getting better or newer that they constantly need websites to change their look to “stay with the times”. I truly think that the websites that stand the test of time are the ones that don’t constantly redesign every few months (think Google… their main page is pretty much as its always been).
I just posted this on the old “Leave Feedback” – but I wanted to mention it here too.
The new layout is really hard on the eyes. Having all the images/videos on the left, and all of the information type stuff on the right is difficult and irritating to read. I liked the old layout where everything flowed from top to bottom. As I scroll down, I don’t have to look left at the picture and then right to the links/info/etc.
Please consider designing the new layout to be similar to the old – remember, “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”!
Thanks for listening.
I don’t like the new look, and would love to go back to the older version of this. i don’t like that you can’t go from page to page like before. As the expression goes, if its not broke don’t fix it. please put cheezburger back to the way it use to be.
I always love your site, however, this new BETA is not working well. I have a fast computer that runs well, but the scrolling is not jerky and not responding well, so I’m having trouble seeing much of the site at all. I wish you luck in these changes and making them more friendly to all.
I hated everything. Please bring the old layout back.
Every time I go to the new site, my computer completely freezes for about 15 seconds. Can’t even move my mouse. I have Windows Vista and Chrome.
i dont mind it for the rest of the site but you have to do something about thedailywh.at
i cant stand the format and how i have to click to view more stories and stuff
i liked the old lay out a lot better.
I haven’t looked at it too much, but I liked how the title, image, and description were all vertical in the old cheezburger. Instead of going up to down, my eyes now have go from right to left to right again.
I agree with comment button comments as well as the scrolling. I’m also on a laptop and it lags pretty hard when new things have to load, that and if I’m mid-scroll and the page suddenly decides to load more images, it takes me to the bottom again and skips everything that just loaded. Then, as it’s programmed too, it does it again because it thinks I’ve scrolled down to the bottom of the page… again. I have to quickly take my mouse off the scroller and wait for everything to load and stop lagging before I can go all the way up and find my place again, which is laggy as well because of all the ads on the side that need to load too.
It looks great but it doesn’t function that well, and the dysfunction takes the funny away
I suppose it’s an ok first effort for a “new look”, but in all honesty I find it a pain to navigate, I don’t like the scrolling feature, the all white look is a bit much (in my opinion), and my browser (Chrome) seems to bog/stick in spots when scrolling through.
I’d love to keep coming back if those things can be fixed!! My weekly Caturday email to friends and family depends on it!!
I’ve been following cheezburger since the (almost) the very beginning
Hate it. Why would Iook to the right to see the deadline/description of an image in the main column? Awful UX.
Well, first what I like. I like the fact that the drop down menu is always accessible so I can easily go between pages without having to scroll to either the top or bottom. The endless scroll is also nice, but it did startle me when it just reloaded and I didn’t realize exactly what it was doing at first.
What I didn’t like. It’s way too white. It’s really quite harsh on the eyes right now and just looks like there’s a ton of empty space which makes it look cheap to me. Finding the comments was in no way intuitive and looks really awkward, I prefer it on the bottom of a post rather than to the side. The title to the right is weird as well. The share on facebook image is also really tacky looking to me. My main thing is all the white though, I really don’t like that. I know that if I was tired and viewing the page it would be way too harsh for me and would hurt my eyes. Since I usually check before bed that would just result in a headache and I probably would just stop coming by.
First, The endless page thing is annoying, crappy pc´s like at my university can get fvcked up from time to time. And shifting back 5 pages to that one funny picture takes too much effort.
Second, screw facebook. Dont have one, dont want one. And I allways liked the comments. So if I can only post from facebook from now that will probably mean not coming back for me I guess.
Third, the ads are way too large. Nice that it gives you guys some more cash but its not working for me. Too much ads will push people from your site you know.
Fourth and final on this new version, the old version was way better. And this will not be something that grows on you as you continue to use it, its just crap.
General comments:
Why can´t you say standard bad words.. Has allways annoyed me. This isn´t a tv show where you get fined, it is the internet. All sorts of gore are on here, you won´t get sued for saying fuck. Also, bring back the NSFW page you had before!!! The less PC a joke is, the better. And thats not just me, but 90 percent of all internet users. The people that don´t approve of that kind of humour are not on the internet.
Don’t mind the new layout at all, but you need to keep the titles and ratings on the main “feed”, not in the comments pages.
Things I dislike about the new page:
1) Change. I dislike it. (We all know that’s why people complain about this sort of thing… I might as well be honest about it.)
2) The endless scrolling. It locks up my browser while it loads the next page, which is irritating.
3) The big boxes around each item seem fairly pointless.
4) Once again you’ve made it hard to figure out where the other sites I want to see are. I only look at a few. Each time you reorganize the links, I lose track of at least one, because I don’t care enough to look for it. I’m now down to Very Demotivational and Failbook, from a peak of about 10 of your sites. Thus, you get fewer hits from me. Congratulations.
Things I like about the new page.
1) The endless scrolling and browser lockups may be enough to get me off your site entirely, which can only leave me with more time to be productive. That would probably make my life easier, although less full of entertainment. This is more of a “silver lining” than a “good thing,” really.
do not like. at all.
The only thing I really don’t like is that the title of the LOL is to the right of it instead of above it. While this is sometimes a good thing (as some titles used to spoil the contents of the LOL or were otherwise confusing), it takes away from some of the longer, multi-part LOLs. I just tried to read one (http://cheezburger.com/6375813120) that I truly didn’t get. I got to what I thought was the end, thought to myself “Well, gee, that was pretty funny, but there was no punchline and it was quite weak.”, then scrolled down a little more to see what I thought was a separate post with the same people – turned out, it was the same post, I just couldn’t tell because there were no titles separating the LOLs from each other. The effect of the LOL was ruined, and it was only then, four LOLs into the page, that I figured out where the often-hilarious titles are. Also, at first glance, it appears that the ads at the top of the page are part of the first LOL, as the slightyly-darker-than-white borders around them blend in so well with the white background. In summation: Put the titles back above the LOLs so that they are separated from each other better, and/or make the borders of the LOLs darker.
Oh, also, I pray you do not alter my Brony site.
I dislike the bar at the top of the screen that follows the page, it can get really irritating.
Way too white, and I hate how it expands when you scroll down. This makes it difficult to get to the links at the bottom (which are easier to navigate then the links at the top) The lack of titles was also very confusing.
I really dislike the new layout, the continuous load eats up my bandwidth, It’s more difficult to scroll, and I’m continuously backing up to see what i missed. Many pictures don’t fit in the browser window, probably because the annoying navigation bar is squatting continuously at the top. Having the vote functions to the side is fine, But the titles and editorial comments no longer read as content, but just more noise. Thanks for asking!
Cheezburger! Why you mess with perfection!?
No I do NOT like it and I resent being thrown in without a choice. I totally don’t mind the white but I DO mind the moving stills that are a.distracting, b.irritating because they won’t hold still long enough for you to read them-I prefer to scroll down without having to go back & forth. I do not like the interruption of the pictures by the advertising & other crap that I have to scroll past to see the pictures. I know you need it or think you do but put it on the side with the others. The really intrusive & annoying ones I write down so I make sure I AVOID patronisng them ever so that defeats the purpose of having it there.Also you took out the “send this by email” bit in the daily cheezeburger so I have to spend 10 minutes or more going here & there to find that picture just to email it to someone. There should be the old for those that prefer it as well as the new for those few that are o.k. with it or like it better. Also in the Mart if something is no longer available in the clearance section it should either not appear or be clearly marked what is & what is NOT available on the first page so you don’t get all the way to actually putting down money to order before you find out that size, style, whatever is NOT AVAILABLE. I thought you had fixed this but apparently either you hadn’t or you went back to the old way for the new. This WILL influence my buying as it is too much trouble to bother with checking the clearance if I can’t find out what there is right away. Last year I made my list & went to order only to find out I couldn’t get the shirts I wanted ’cause there were none of those actually left although the site implied there were.
Your new layout is bad and you should feel bad.
Do Not Like !
I hate this new look. What was wrong with the old one? If something is already pretty good, it’s a stupid idea to change it, which will only make it worse. Just look at Facebook and Youtube.
It is awful. It’s way too slow and really difficult to read.
The new cheezburger is a little confusing but I suppose I’ll get used to it in time. However, the endless scrolling makes it nearly impossible for me to go on it on my laptop and this is the only computer with internet right now. You should be considering people who can’t afford an amazing computer as well, I can’t even use the new site. You’ll lose a lot of fans.
I do like the facebook commenting though because I can’t be bothered to type in my name and address all the time.
I prefer seeing the narrative below the picture rather than to the side. I also liked the links at the bottom of the page so I can go from there to the other sites I like. So I’m not so fond of the redesign.
Stop. Just…stop it. I’ve been forced to the new beta site repeatedly while -attempting- to browse through a site that I’ve been watching on and off for between five and six years. I’ve watched sites – good and bad – come and go. I’ve watched some of the best sites be completely removed while facebook, twitter and piles of smouldering excrement have taken the place of wonderful, positive, uplifting sites. Sometime around a year to a year and a half ago – you stopped listening to a good portion of your fan-base, and surrounded yourself with people who nod and smile and tell you that you’re wonderful.
I saw that you’re moderating comments so that truly ‘unnecessary’ ones aren’t put on the front page. I truly wonder what your version of ‘unnecessary’ is – and how much it likely (though probably with a decent amount of sprinkled expletives) told you what a terrible job you’re doing at what you do. With every new site you put up, there is a greater and greater risk that they are worthless and clog the internet with more racist, homophobic, cruel, uneducated nonsense – the things that people learn behavior from because it’s in an easy to manage and digest form wrapped in so called ‘humor’.
In one day and five sites, I was forced to your new beta site 3 times. It is ugly, it is hard to read, it is focused and catered to people who are addicted to social media – mimicking those sites they spend most of their day on. It is difficult if not impossible to find the sites that I want to see, as a good many of them you’ve purged from your site. Those that I enjoyed the most that are gone have been ‘replaced’ with weak almost ‘placating’ attempts, while not having to upkeep the sites. And in return, we get this new ‘beta’ – which is a terrible, fetid creation and a pathetic replacement for that which you have laid waste to and left to rot, along with some of your oldest fans.
This was the last straw. You do not listen to the fans when they beg, plead and attempt bargaining even, for you to keep the sites they most love. You cater to a crowd of asinine and obtuse zombies, and have devolved to middle school humor. And almost worst of all, you have become too concerned with the cash-flow and popularity to remember where you came from and who made you who and what you are.
Brilliant comment. My thougts exactly.
Not liking this, Not at all.
I miss adding things to favorites. I also dislike the endless scrolling, too.
I explored the sites’ many different genres and sections through the menu at the end, and now that I don’t have one, it limits my curiosity. The simplicity just screams out bland and pale to me. D:
This is not what usability should be… im getting concerned about Internets more and more.
Web 2.0 is eating its children!
Nice, but WHY are the pages SOOOO LOOOOOONNNNG???
Also, when we reatch the bottom of a page, where is the link to older pages gone?
Too white, too many ads, too many scripts, too sterile, too facebook = no fun. I used to visit at least daily and had a jolly good laugh, I now only come here to access lols I’ve made. I never did find a way to opt out of beta, and wish I had.
Guess I’ll soon opt out of cheezburger altogether and close my account.
I REALLY like being able to scroll to the bottom of the page so I can click over to TDW Geek, WIN!, FAIL Blog Home, etc. With a never ending webpage (those went out of style in 1997 BTW), I can’t get to the bottom block to click over to Dating Fails.
The new wide block layout is nice though.
The new pages look slick, and I like the return of the voting buttons, but I think I’d rather the old layout stick around.
First problem is that the dynamic fetching for the “endless scroll” blocks the browser for a few seconds. This makes the sight appear slow.
Second, I vastly prefer the “Cheezburger Network” box at the bottom for going to the sites I see, rather than the menu bar at the top.
Both of these mean I’d really like pagination back. Or at least optional.
Just put the website back to how it was will you? It’s bad enough facebook doing all of this shite, but now one of the only decent websites on the internet has followed the fecking trend? Come on, just put it back. It was easy to use before, and now it’s just plain annoying.
I do not like the new Cheezeburger!
Where is the comments section?
What happened to the send this via e-mail?
Go back to the old way.
Thank you for asking for my opinion.
If I’m honest… it may look clean and sharp but it’s unintuitive, a nightmare to navigate, and hard to find what matters, i.e. the humour. Before it was quick and easy… now I have trouble finding what I want, which means I don’t bother so much any more.
Sorry – not what you want to hear but this new layout is a tad rubbish. The old functionality with new graphics would have worked better.
I would rather have the description, votes etc to the left and the images to the right.
The infinite scrolling is really useful. With the [J] and [K] keys function is easier to read the whole thing.
Both good points.
I dislike how the title of the image is to the right. A lot of them time the title is part of the joke and this set up doesn’t really let one flow into the other. It’s easy to ignore or miss on that side, it took me a while to realize where the titles had been moved even though they are right next to it.
Old layout : was fine
New layout : kill it with fire.
I don’t like the way the page continues forever. I like my web pages to have a definite beginning and ending. It looked better the way it was before. This new version is atrocious.
I’m fine with the changes except for three things.
1. I’m viewing mostly at work, so I keep my browser window pretty small. This means that I can no longer see the title of the entry, because it is off of the screen to the right.
2. Having the sub-sites only listed on a hover-over pop up menu also means that I have to maximize my browser window whenever I want to change which site I’m viewing. Annoying. Why hide something that should be in plain sight?
3. Where have the comments gone? When I click on the title of the entry, all I see is a place where I can make Facebook comments. Is no one commenting on the entries any more?
Don’t know whether this has already been suggested, but a “Back to Top” Button would be handy instead of scrolling infinitely up after a long read through the vastness of Memebase
I don’t care for the new site and the endless scrolling either. I much prefer to have actual pages. The long scrolling page seems to take longer to load on my laptop too, and slows things down a lot. For as long as I’m able to I’m going to opt for the old one
The main problem I’ve noticed is that I rarely see the comments when I click on the pictures.
No sir, I don`t like it! Bring back the old one!
I dislike infinite scrolling very much. I was very disappointed to see cheezburger introduce it, as I already find it very frustrating on tumblr for the same reason that Melissa described. Using the actual scroll bar leads to sudden jumps down the page as more content loads. It is especially annoying when using a laptop touchpad, when that is the most efficient way of scrolling. It makes for a very unpleasant visitor experience.
I’m going to leave an unrelated comment: I used to like this site because it was full of foolishness, but now you seem to be willing to invite trolls and political asses (and elephants who are also asses), and what is it with people who think Lolspeak means MISSPELL ALL THE THINGS?!
Seriously, I’m just here to look at the cute animals. But I’ll check out your new design, although I think a big BANhammer would do you more good.
Nope. Do not want. I appreciate all the efforts this must have taken,but honestly I totally prefer the old style.
Don’t like it. Comments aren’t loading, HATE the facebook plug-in. Only good thing is the voting. Go back to old style; keep voting.
I don’t like the new version. Continuous scroll is annoying because if you have your mouse settings to scroll the page with the (laptop) mouse, if you touch the mouse the wrong way the whole page scrolls back to the top. Then you have to find your place again. I’m not sure if this was remedied with the new version, but there are several LOLs that are repeats…time and time and time again. If it was, I guess I’d like to suggest a combo…get rid of the continuous page, and keep the one-time-only rule with posting EXACT LOLs.
still sucks
Can you put the titles on top of the memes again? With them at the side, I have to look in two places and it disturbs my smooth browsing experience. I also miss half of them because I keep my eyes in the same spot and keep on scrolling.
I like the new layout but it’s a bit glichy on my Windows Phone 7. I don’t know if other mobile devices are having problems as well but I can’t get the drop down menus like I can on my PC. As a note I could see them when the beta was first launched.
This new layout is freaking heavy, unoptimized, too visually polluted, lots of Failbook bs and its is effeing fugly.
My eyes are bleeding………..
How the heck I revert it?
Speaking as a web developer, I have to ask one thing:
What the heck were you thinking?
Aside from the scripts freezing my browsers, the layout is positively awful. Did you do any usability testing on this?? The enlarged images take forever to load, the text is way too small, and I can barely distinguish one block of content from another-its so monotonous!
Seriously please reconsider this switch, I guarantee you’ll lose users if you don’t.
I don’t like it. The font itself, the large font size, and the colours. When I read the texts it’s like I’m listening to someone stupid talking.
Hello there,
At the risk of sounding like a luddite, the new Cheezburger seems like a pointless upgrade of something that was admittedly not perfect, but not in desperate need of such a dramatic overhaul.
The overall design is too light/bright, and the icons, links etc are at such a ridiculously ballooned size that I think my grandmother would complain about their too-in-the-face-ness.
The adverts are also far too central in the layout and it can make you wonder whether they have become the central aspect of the Cheezburger Network, and not only in layout terms.
While I understand why we must have advertisements on the Network, I fear that the composition of the new layout will put people off visiting the site to the point that advertisers may find it uneconomical to pay for the advertising space here.
On a less general note, the links to see the comments are sometimes hard to find amid the mess of the various ‘share’ options and please, for the love of all things holy, do not remove the number of comments displayed under the image/video/gif, because they can be a deciding factor for a browser as to whether to go and ‘see comments’.
I used to visit the site every day, drawn in by The Daily What primarily but also other sites on the Network, but since that went downhill after the editor change, I visited less but still often but now, with the new Cheezburger rearing its head every other time I visit a site on the Network, I’ve reverted to using Tumblr, where you can get The Daily What. I know of a few people who are doing such things. Or simply going on the Daily of the Day.
Overall, I’m incredibly disappointed in the Network for its obvious disrespect for its users.
I second most of all that.
Yep, yep, and….yep.
Nice to see you changed the site on my birthday.lol……Joined a few days ago and it has been an invaluable site….I have created so many memes for my funny picture page on FACEBOOK and I salute you for providing such a great site. Only gripe I have is that I cannot find the ‘CREAT’ button any more so have to go round the houses to create a new meme…Other than that…GREAT.
I find the new layout pretty atrocious. In particular I don’t like the cluttered feel of the meme widget. It has the meme on the left and title/caption with social network links on the right. From a ergonomic user interface standpoint is extremely unpleasant to follow with the eyes. Studies have shown that vertical columns are easier to navigate and more quickly informative, and I personally agree. For this reason, I opt out and go to the original layout every time (which albeit is cluttered as well).
As for the ad placement, which seems to be a large complaint, I do not mind it at all. The new styling for ads seems to utilize empty space, and as an avid internet user I’ve learned to tune out ads anyway.
I really like the infinite scroll, it is pretty seamless and feels very smooth and professional, kudos there. An aspect I don’t like about it is that I usually ration my Cheezburger Network fix with the page numbers, so I don’t spend ALL my time here….though that may be your intention.
Anyway, if the main meme widget were more visually pleasing and easily navigable, I wouldn’t opt out of using the new interface. Thanks for the opportunity for feedback and for allowing us to opt out.
I hate this. WAAAYY too many advertisements !!! GET RID OF THEM. all of them.
DO NOT WANT. The New Cheezburger freezes my computer for up to an entire minute while the page loads. For that reason, I do not come here as often as I used to.
It wasn’t broke — why are you trying to fix it??
DO NOT WANT!
Rule #1 of interaction design: nothing should move, jiggle, dance, etc., on my screen without my express permission.
Any site that violates that rule loses a major share of their audience.
Another big chunk of their audience is driven to install tools that let them regain controls of their interface. The ads that pay your bills are collateral damage along the way.
This is fantastic. The old site was terribly cluttered with ads and content, and the minimalism on this one is amazing. Makes me much more inclined to stay and browse on the site, and it loads significantly faster.
What sorcery is this? A computer that can load the new site?!
Too much of a facebook copy. I like having a bottom to the pages; it makes it very natural to go to the other cheez sites.
I’m with Lu, when I come to the new version, it freezes my computer for a bit before the page loads. It’s really not as attractive or intuitive as it used to be. I’m really not a huge fan of it. I know it takes a lot to make new pages like this, but you gotta listen to your target audience too guys.
Like the infinite scroll, miss the snappy commentary under the images.
God, you people better not keep doing this. It’s worse than changing Facebook, which I couldn’t give two craps about now.
Seriously, just leave the site as is. It doesn’t need an update.
The pages are too long. You need to add breaks. The titles should appear above the memes, not to the side. There is nothing pleasing about the new layout. You should scrap it.
Put the text back below the pictures, make the top bar less obtrusive. Bring back hawtness!
Only a couple things I have noticed. I’ve been visiting the Beta site for a while now and I find that when a page loads it freezes my computer for a very long time.
Also, until tonight (07/03) I didn’t know how to get to the other pages such as I has a Hot Dog and so on. I feel stupid that it took me this long to realize that all I had to do was hover over the area button to have the list drop down for me, maybe it would be a good idea to put the list of other sites somewhere, like it is now on the bottom of the screen, or make a small note so silly people like me will know how to find it.
All in all I think it looks nice, those are the only two issues I have with the new site.
Good luck!
Hi Beccakitty- Thanks for the feedback. We’re working on some of the performance/loading issues, so hopefully that will fix the page loading time for you.
I love several of the Cheezburger sites and view them regularly. I have never posted any comments before. That being said, I hate this new layout. Please go back to the way it was, ie. separate pages. The new layout is clumsy and confusing and takes a long time to load. It also looks terrible. Please switch back. It wasn’t broke, so please don’t try to fix it. How can I opt out and go back to the usable site?
Hi Josie – If you would like to go back to the previous version of our site, you can click to Back to the old Cheezburger image in the top left hand corner and you’ll be redirected back.
The look is O.k I give it a B…diminished.
But I have Cable internet and this thing is slow…….. ….. …………really……. …s..lo……..w…..
It is dragging itself armless through a field of happy puppies,
uphill in the snow,
on its way to its own death,
on a Monday.
Did I mention its is agonizingly sluggish?
It is f-ing slow.
Please fix now.
Thank You.
Definitely do not want. It’s almost blinding to look at. It needs to be a lot less white, especially the center bit. It’s kind of confusing, also, when you want to look at a picture. Everything just seems scattered everywhere with no clear order. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the previous layout; I don’t even see why you had to change it. My primary recommendation would be just to switch back to the old one.
Good job with fewer ads… but titles should be on the left, images on the right.
Endless scrolling totally stuffs my ram…
I… I really hate it. And that’s hard for me to say, because I’m one of those “I’m sure there’s some upside” people. But I really hate it. It’s blindingly white, there’s no sensible links for comments and tags, and why don’t the photos have editor commentary anymore? I know it’s a new site manager than before, but the commentary was often the difference between a “well that’s a stupid tattoo” post and one that had me crying laughing.
I miss the comments too…they really had to try hard to make this suck, no?
Jesus! You guys are really going out of your way to make this site suck. There is some community still left in the comments sections but you’ve cancelled them for clicks.
can we get the “captions only” link back for those of us with slow connections and/or cantankerously old computers? thanks.
Hi E! Are you looking for the captions only portion for I Can Has Cheezburger? If so, here is the link: http://icanhas.cheezburger.com/tag/captions/
THANK GOD for the button that allows us to go back. I was worried there for a minute.
I keep clicking the “back to the old Cheezburger” button and you keep putting me back on the new one
Can you stop doing that? On the new one I keep forgetting that I can’t scroll down and go to the next page, and by the time I realize how far down the page I am, the internet provider stops working because there’s too much to load.
Also it’s too bright.
So no, I don’t like it
i do not like the new design. It is more difficult to follow, takes longer to load, and also, if ain`t broke, don`t fix it guys.
Saludos desde Argentina!!
I love the new layout, but whenever i open memebase, the amount of stuff the browser loads freezes my laptop for 10 seconds, and will crash programs, i lvoe the new site, but i have begun not visiting as i dont wanna lose my work etc?
Oh, God, WHY?!?!? WHY DO THE MEAN INTERNETS PEOPLE DO THIS?!?
Ahem, any way, it takes forever to load, the whole top of the screen is used up by funny things that have their titles and captions hacked off, the giant ads are unappealing, somebody stole the banner and chopped it up into a ribbon, then poured white paint everywhere, to fully achieve that tacky, cheap blog look, and the lag makes me want to stab my laptop…or myself, but mostly the laptop. Oh, and put the thumbs up to the left, and thumbs down to the right, my brain thinks the other way is weird and should be banned, but, I like the voting option. But, how does me a bunny comment?
The new cheeseburger is full of meh.
i tried the new site and i had NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON!!! i was wandering around aimlessly for about 5 minutes before i just got annoyed and closed out of it. please don’t change the regular, page BETA IS STUPID!!! i cant leave a comment because i don’t have a Facebook and all the buttons are in random places. plz think of another way to upgrade the site. thank you,
sincerely, the internet
well its not really appealing to look at, kind of boring. and there isnt a re-caption button. what did the internet do to you? can you not see the 20,000 comments saying they hate it? are you REALLY still going through with this?
I like that you can see the thumbs up and thumbs down.
Why don’t the comments on the new site link up with the comments on the old? There are many more comments on the old version and they are nowhere to be seen on the new site.
The biggest problem I have is that browsing in this fashion is quite slow… My connection actually froze up yesterday while looking at a gif on page “2″ (I hadn’t gotten far before running into trouble), so I had to go back to the old site. The page is constantly loading and that is causing problems for me.
Hi Heather- The old comments will eventually be transferred over to the new platform, but that will happen after we move completely onto the new platform. We are also working on fixing the performance issues as well. Thanks!
So slow, why not keep it simple and let us enjoy the news and fails (not the new web-site) at a rate that will keep us coming back. I know that the best web sites (like google) keep trying to change and make things more complex so that it grabs people’s attention, but really, if it isn’t broke don’t fix it.
BTW… Your comment filter destroys trolling and everything that free speech and what your site used to stand for.
failbook.failblog.org is seriously broken on Android with Opera
Blar. Don’t like it on the whole. Where’s the search? I’m usually halfway down the page wondering why none of the pictures have titles like they used to, before I remember/realize they’re on the right. FAR too much white. Color choices would be nice, especially a black one with yellow or white text. Sites with too much light color in the background are unpleasant after a while.
Haven’t yet decided if I like the auto ‘add more’ when I scroll to the bottom in Firefox. Doesn’t do it in IE.
Hi StarChaser_Tyger – We will be bringing back search in the near future. We are improving it and will bring it back when it’s ready for you all to search everything and anything. Thanks!
I’m so glad voting is back! I missed it over the last few weeks.
Enough with tiny light-colored text hiding in a huge white background, though. That seems to be the “in” thing with website design, even though most users hate it. I’m disappointed Cheezeburger would jump on this bandwagon.
I’m kind of indifferent to the infinite page idea in a general sense, but miss the ‘all sites’ links at the bottom.
The one thing I REALLY dislike is having Facebook shoved down our throats. Why would I log in through another site that I don’t like & never use? Not everyone lives & dies by social networking, despite all the media hype.
About the new design:
PRO:
-The new layout is simple and not too complicated.
-Easier on mobile devices. I can do stuff in Memebase as I almost mostly use Memebase from my phone.
-In some cases, when the bottom is reached, the older submissions automatically appear. This lessens the hassle of having to go to, and wait for, the next page, and also makes it easier to return to where you want to stop. (I’m sure those who duplicate tabs will disagree with this)
-The tabs above make inter-navigation to other Cheezburger sites a LOT easier. There is no need to go tho the very bottom to jump to another page. (You press ‘End’ or ‘Home’, it’d come to the same story; that I understand)
-Rate buttons make a comeback. Later submissions weren’t as popular as those before the rating system was removed from the main page.
-The submissions are less compressed and closer to the center. At least it’s comfortable for my neck.
CON:
Also, both are placed at the side, so I had to look to the right, then left, then right again. It’s tiring.
-When the site first appears, the window freezes, the browser crashes, and ultimately all other open programs fail to pop up. Loading the page also takes a very long time. Not the case for mobiles, though.
-Seems to have less color than the older design. The once window wide heading of each site, together with the artwork, is reduced to only a bookmark at the top left of the page. The new layout somehow lacks its once artistic flare.
-The title and the subtitle of the page are too close together. In my opinion, that kind of spoils the fun.
-What happened to the “You May Like” sections? I can’t help but feel sorry for those who did not make it to the top page.
-Some buttons are either too obvious (e.g. “Post to” buttons are too big) or too oblivious (e.g. the “Featured” and “Vote” links are now less visible than before).
MEH:
-Cheezburger comments don’t seem to pop up in the bottom and takes a long time to load. But it’s understandable as comments have to be transferred from the old layout to the new one.
IN CONCLUSION:
For some parts, the new site is sleek, easy for the eyes and for the hands. It’s convenient for all devices, especially mobile phones. However, in a web browser’s case, it takes forever to load. The layout lacks in zest and color, and can hurt the eyes when viewing the site in the dark (I do such so I had to stress this). So yeah, I’m so-and-so for this one.
Hi CA – Thanks so much for the really detailed feedback. Great to hear specifics. In regards to the load time, we’re working on performance issues now, and we hope to get that fixed very soon. We will be releasing a new design as well which will have the title on top of the image instead of the side and will have more color, so it won’t look so plain. We removed the You May Like sections, but are figuring out how we can bring something like that back on the new platform. Thanks!
Please.. change it back.. no-one likes the new site and we all preferred the old one.. You guys have gone downhill lately, i’m joining reddit
> Complains about format
> Mentions reddit
Meh .. Whatevs. Just make up your minds already. Go with the new stuff you prolly paids truckloads for or stole for free from some intern just stop messing with the interface. I go into Failblog and go through the new stuff and check out my favourite sites in the cheezburger network and that’s ALL I’m interrested in. I just wanna click through it all. I don’t wanna have to change from using the links at the bottom of the screen to using menues with a completelt different layout 4-5 times every day. Just settle for one version.
It’s very annoying to have to click the drop down to find sub-sites! Also, having the bar at the top makes the screen smaller, which leaves less room to see the lols, and gets annoying.
Too much distraction from the lols in the new format, to my taste: Too much time downloading a page full of irrelevancy until I can finally see what I came to see. Too many ads. And I don’t care to “like” or do all sorts of other Facebook stuff with the main material, I’m just looking for a little humor in my day. Afraid I liked it better the old way. Sorry, people. Simple is better for me.
do not want!
don’t like the ginormous ads at the top. don’t like the drop-down’s vs. links. can’t tell what’s an ad and what’s a post. ALWAYS click to go back to the old way of viewing things.
Pro: It looks fresh and clean…and that is it.
Con: 1. The headline on the right…like some others alreade said this goes completely against what everybody is used to. Headlines are above the thing they belong to, thus the name ‘head’line. Or are you all headless horsemen who carry their heads in that case I would completely understand.
2. How can I turn of that stupid add-more function. I usually go to the cheezburger mainpage, read the new stuff and then proceed to go to the other sites in the cheezburger network that were conveniently placed in that big blue block at the bottom. They cost me one click. Now I have to scroll all the way back up to the top, do a mouseover and then click – a clear usability killer for me.
3 and least – those HUGE “Post to…” and “Share on Facebook” buttons and that tiny normal comment button. The tiny one is the only one that matters for me since I would never ever use facebook comments.
Hi Gargelwarg – We’re working on a new content card design where the title will be on top of the image instead of to the right. Thanks!
Where is the “search” field? I always come to ICHC with a particular topic in mind, and then try to see what lols exist for that topic. Then, of course, I hang around for a few hours and look at everything else.
But if I can’t search for my daily humorous topic — whatever that might be — I probably get out of the habit of visiting ICHC. It’s just how I do things.
I’m clicking “Back to the Old Cheezburger” for now….
HI mran- We’re working on bringing back the search feature and just making some tweaks to it. Should be back soon. Thanks!
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do not want either,
After shutting down and starting back up, the first new cheeze site always takes 5mins to load and interrupts everything. The only thing I consistently view in new cheeze style is dolan but that’s because we’re forced to (please make an old style dolan section).
Other than the technical problems, simply put, I don’t like the new look, its busy, bad ad placement, in half window mode, I have to scroll to the side (old cheeze doesn’t have this problem), and I don’t see whats wrong with the old look.
Ugh. Hidden buttons, bad formatting, and change for no good reason. HAATED IT!
Worst mistake since you got rid of hawtness.com
The new design is better than the old one in all aspects except loading speed. Fix this and we’ll be happy.
As an overall opinion, I don’t like the new layout as compared to the old one. My biggest complaint would have to be the never-ending scrolling. I was much more pleased with the option to choose pages at the bottom, especially in cases such as Brony page. I recently started reading over them and wanted to start at the earliest page, and couldn’t find a way to go back without choosing to scroll to the oldest post. However, the new look is more appealing and the “Trending Posts” at the start of each page is a nice touch. Aside from scrolling, it seems to be a nice update.
A little too bright, also the vote buttons and title positions are making it look like that sh*tty 9gag.
Personally, I hate it with a passion. Titles are hidden, comments are hidden, too goddamn much white, and the endless scrolling is a lag machine.
I will consistently opt out of beta, because this new system is unwieldy and cumbersome. I have always enjoyed the next page format because it allows me to go through the archives of Memebase, Demotivational, and Comixed easily. This new single page format not only makes that task difficult but it also slows the loading time of the comics by a considerable amount. I have never had an issue loading comics before but the new style has made loading tedious and makes me not want to scroll past the first 3 or 4 pictures. In addition, the new choosing style at the top of the screen is rather odd. I preferred having the buttons to the sites directly available at the top of the screen, because it was easily accessible.
I don’t like it
it’s really hard to scroll down… and it keeps jumping me back to the top. pwweezz change it back. thank you! :3 love you guys!!
Just moving my mouse around lights up half my screen or throws bubbles at me.
Ben and minions: I continue to be enchanted by your presence on this planet in my later life. Who’d a thunk it back when all we had were black rotary dial phones with 5 feet of cord–no princess phones yet? And now, THIS? YOU??? TEH INTERWEBZ!!!11!!!
Just keep doing the best work you can, don’t let the angst of those struggling with “change” bring you down, they have their own stuff to process and that is to be expected. At my age I’ve learned a bit about dealing with change… Just sending FUMBZ UP tonite. many floofy blessings, wishes, and hopes, BGCMEOWRRRR
Please, return it back!
It´’s lame, like facebook timeline!
I have just one problem. The neew version takes ages for my browser to open and generally freezes my computer for about 20 seconds. This is a long time in modern internet browsing. It’s so slow it reminds me of the dial up days *shudder*
I think the web developers clamor to the newest thing: let’s convert the whole bloody site to Flash so it takes a long time to load, freezes up the customer’s PCs, and so we can track them with flash cookies. Please. You are not enhancing my customer experience, but ruining it instead. I do not have to return to your site. Please make it stop or I will wander off to another site with less (preferably no) Flash.
I prefer the older version, but I think the biggest turn-off is the political bashing of particular persuasions and / or beliefs. I am reducing my frequency due to your support of this activity .
I love how the endless scrolling really works. Like just now: I was at the bottom of page 13 and it stopped loading more pages. I waited about a minute, nothing happened. So since there is no next/previous page buttons anymore I had to refresh the page. So guess what? It jumped to the bottom of page 19. And you know, this is my first experience with the new layout. Not very convincing, not at all… And I didn’t even want to try the beta. It just changed by itself.
Also, on a side note: Why is the dislike/thumb down button before the like/thumb up button and not other way around, like in Youtube for an example. I’m glad you brought voting back, though.
Do not like
It’s actually confusing. The comments section is almost hidden, and even the little “blurbs” that are written after the pictures aren’t always quite the same. It’s like I just get to look at the pictures now and I have to skip on the “commentary”. No like 
I have to say, I have loved your site for years…and I didnt want to leave this feedback….but I honestly hate the new design of your site. It’s like it lost its soul. Like Disney took over and homogenized everything. No titles on things. Cant tell sometimes what’s an ad and what is a submission. I know things have to change (and again, I really didnt want to leave this comment) but the new design, UI/UX, etc. is horrible….you ruined the site.
You can’t scroll back up when you’ve gone to a bottom of the front page. If I’m scrolling down and then I try to use the up down slider on the right hand side it just brings me back down to where I was. I can hit home to get to the top again but this is clearly a bug. Also I like being able to jump to subsections at the bottom. So I don’t really care for the new site. Time to spend more time on reddit I guess.
I don’t like it. I liked the old site better. Where are the sections that used to be listed at the top? I just want to be able to look at the lolcats and the sf section, not have everything lumped in. Don’t like it, I’m going to stick to the old one.
I really enjoy your network and all your sites, but I’m not a big fan of the new layout. It seems to be a case of “it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” It was fine before and kept me coming back. Now when I get to a page with the new layout, I just go back to Facebook…for sad. Not a fan of:
- endless scrolling
- glaring whiteness of the whole thing
- Links to other pages at the top. Even though they’re grouped the same as they were at the bottom, they seem to kinda float out in space…not as easy on the eyes as the columns at the bottom.
Don’t change. You’re perfect just the way you are!
old layout = superior
i have alot of trouble with the beta with my tablet and phone
Please change the website back to the old format, this is too hard to read. also please make the lolcats page cats only.
YOU FOOL! WHAT HAVE YOU DOOOOOOOONE!?!?!?!
I like the old version better….. this one, just doesn’t do it for me……. If this version is going to sick around, can people have the option to be able to view the old look? The old looks a lot better. I’m not a big fan with the scrolling, I like being able to pick a page. It looks strange to me. I never imagined ICanHasCheezburger to look this way….. But then again, the ones that like the old look, will not get there way, because you people will most likely change it anyway, so what we say, good or bad, probably wont make a difference, sadly. Oh well. I miss the old look already, even though I can’t go back to it, and soon, it will be gone forever. (Lol!!! A little dramatic there but its true….)
English reading is left to right. Reading the title of a post should naturally come before reading the post itself. Thus placing the title on the right of the post is impractical to say the least.
Do not like. Most of the pictures do not load on public computers with some kind of firewall or creates shenanigans with other network features that creates a redirect loop. Seems to constantly load – the whole thing about it being faster isn’t my experience. There also seems to be less on each page which seems annoying – even if it is the same it seems more sparse
Definitely do not like – my company automatically blocks any website with Cheezburger in the url. I was still able to check out thedailywh.at, but now that I’m periodically getting sent to the Onobetaoptinredirect site, I can’t get my daily fix. We need some urls that don’t get blocked!
Please let us opt out
Still extraordinarily slow. I only have a 4 core 2.6GHz system though so obviously it’s pretty weak compared to the power you need to display 6 images + text per page. Because holy cow 6 is a LOT of images to fit on a single page. I understand why you had to make the textbox microscopic so you can’t fit descriptions into it, otherwise even supercomputers would melt under the strain
Comments still do not work, period, just don’t show up, wait for HOURS after clicking a link and still only have a spinning icon instead of any comments.
Terrible ultra-narrow layout designed backwards and without enough space to fit full length descriptions.
Good work deleting the explanation of why you had to delete the opt-out “for our own good” because we are spoiled children and don’t deserve choice because we choose wrong. Couldn’t see through all your tears because it had 20,000 downvotes to 300 upvotes? Absolutely and…
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loading the site freezes my computer for up to 10 seconds and the speakers emits 1 beep upon “release”. Happens everytime upon visiting after cleaning cookies n cache. i5, 8gb ram, hd6750, FF 16.02, win 7.
Today, I went to the beachfront with my children.
I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said “You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear.” She put the shell to her
ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear.
She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is entirely
off topic but I had to tell someone!