It’s been sad. The AVClub used to be this sort of unique thing with a vibrant community and a fairly easy to navigate, if busy, front page. Now we have the KinjAVClub which is just another Gizmodo tab. I guess that’s what makes me saddest of all. I’m here but mostly out of work induced apathy in a lot of ways.
Anyways,…

I’m giving it a shot. What else will I do at work?

I still wish Pope Francis had invoked the Catholic doctrine of Priori Incantatem during his meeting with Trump.

No Fox news on TV in Britain? Why, however will the landed gentry know when to have their staff fetch the scarlet livery and top hats from the outdoor excursions closet and make the hounds ready for a dawn ride!?!?

“In this novel, a heroic, righteous officer of the law spends decades chasing an evil, criminal fugitive who used a fake identity to hide in plain sight and even stole a loaf of bread when he was hungry. That criminal was a thief and deserved to be punished.”

- An excerpt from Tom Llamas grade 7 book report on Victor…

FoxNews: The only thing with more useless white space than Gizmodo’s corporate mandated website layout.

“You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”

Dammit, you are correct. I was so hopped up on my KinjaOutrage that I got my characters all a-jumbled.

You’re my Verizon Chipotle Exxon, Kinja CEO of Synergy.

There are tons of ongoing features on all of these Gizmodo blogs that do this, not just the ones I mentioned. Shade Court on Jezebel. Deadspin also has Why Your Team Sucks, Kotako puts a bright yellow Review sticker on all it’s reviews, Jalopnik has the Morning Shift, etc. It’s not that hard.

Two things:

1. KinjAvclub’s poor labeling of these ongoing features is the worst. It’s TERRIBLE branding. Have you guys seen, say Deadspin or Io9? Postal Apocalypse and Fun Bag use easy to recognizing branding. It makes the features stand out so that people can’t find them. You have to randomly guess which article is…

Here’s what I don’t understand, you could fix a lot of the usueablilty issues KINJA has without major changes. There is a giant white sidebar on the front page that does nothing but take up space. Here’s a thought, portion a piece of that out for the most current reviews along with letter grades. Maybe a portion for a…

I’m a little mad at myself for missing out on the most obvious choice.

That finale redeemed so much of those last couple seasons and that Andy line made me weep sad/happy tears. I also loved this exchange form the Parks and Rec finale which I feel fits the theme:

Is there something that prevents you guys from notifying folks that this article is WoT? Is KinjAVclub that inflexible you can’t put What’s On Tonight somewhere above the title of the article? And, if that doesn’t work, put a graphics bar across the bottom of the article image itself? That can’t be that hard. It takes…

You, uh, you know who’s not a libertarian? That cat, Mr. Jinx. Yeah, he hates Von Mises to Pieces.

I don’t think you’re being forceful, I just think this is an Ernie the Kinja Tech bit of condescension. Essentially, “We understand your problems. Stop complaining because it doesn’t matter.”

If you don’t understand the “need to freakout”, why spend time telling other people they shouldn’t be feeling it?

“It sucks and its not fun...”

The KinjAVclub

Also, dude, don’t pull that “it’s just a website, chill” stuff. A lot of folks have been around and commenting and reading the AVCLUB for over a decade and when they take a step backwards in functionality and readability, it’s fucking sad to see. You’re right that websites…

It’s not just the comment system. The website just looks ugly now and ordinary. It used to be the AVCLUB now it’s just a another tab on a poorly designed, boring to look at, white space heavy, hard to navigate website.