I called them prosaic.

Yeah, we know. We've asked the tech team to try to sort that out.

I mean, they're featured on the front page, and they're right over there ——-> on the sidebar of this article page. Also, like I said, the readership has basically quadrupled for reviews since we switched to the capsule format. But I agree that it would be nice to have them in the review box also.

It's all about time management. Like I said, our TV Club staff (really, just two people) has to oversee several dozen recaps along with all the myriad other things we ask them to do in a given day. We're all forced to do more with less these days, and "just a few more paragraphs" eats into that scant time more than…

Sure! The old WOT format was such an enormous undertaking that we always had to pay freelancers to do it, and the pageviews never came close to justifying the cost. So now our staff is doing it—which unfortunately means trimming its size to allow them time to work on the 1,000 other things they have to do in an…

We have and will continue to have longer, featured reviews for bigger albums like this one. But the simple answer to your question is that far more people read the capsule reviews than ever read the individual reviews we had before. So while I'm sorry you don't think they're effective, in terms of actually getting…

We did eight music reviews this week. No Aimee Mann, unfortunately, but we're not exactly hurting for reviews.

Yeah, anchoring the new music review capsule format to that box is something our tech team hasn't sorted out yet. However, according to the pageviews, more people actually find the reviews via the new format than through that box. You'd be surprised how little it's actually used.

We reviewed eight albums this week.

Step Brothers cures cancer.

… What?

Hey, I was at that show!

NO, YOU DO.

Well, saddle up!

"The users were saying something about the … stuff with the things. You know, the things?" - me trying to relay your feedback to the tech team

If you email the tech team using the link above, they'd surely like to know about it.

Our tech team is primarily women!

Ah. That might be something worth emailing the tech team about in the link above. I'm not sure if they can actually fix that, since I just mash the keys here, but it would be good for them to know that users miss that functionality.

Believe me, I've asked!

You can still click on the Newswire landing page, either from the homepage or at the top of any Newswire article: http://www.avclub.com/featu…