No lies detected in this comment. Hard agree. 

“They’re only complaining about is on Gizmodo. None of the commenters are complaining about it on Deadspin.”

Senior Exec, two months from now: “Usage stats of the new page are low? People keep going to /latest instead? Why don’t we just kill /latest?”

“Sir, the commenters are revolting! There isn’t a SINGLE person that likes the updated layout!”

“Perfect! Let’s get started rolling this out to all the other sister sites.”

It's a blog. The vast majority of people want it in chronological order, everything else is in the way. And it actually matters, because the autoplaying, centered, scrolling video that pops up in front of the articles on mobile... Make mobile completely unusable. 

*Changes bookmark to the old version*

Whomever ok’d the new design really should rethink things. Good lord that’s a massive fustercluck.

also Kotaku:

From Kotaku themselves:

Human rights are cool and all, but have you seen this new Hearthstone expansion?!

There is nothing that a ceo does that justifies a 100x increase in their pay over the people that literally make the product that is being sold. Without those tuners there is no product and without the product there is no profit.

most people didnt care. People who post on forums are the vocal minority.

And what exactly are the consequences if they fail on their responsibility? Best case scenario is a very generous golden handshake, worst case scenario is they are replaced and simply go somewhere else.

They were only “one of the most respected and beloved companies in the industry” because people didn’t know what was going on behind closed doors.  Same goes for Ubisoft, and Bethesda, etc.....

and the realization that capitalism sucks.*

Man I sure hope Bobby gets a pay raise after this. I heard he was first to sign that petition internally.

Because people are really really desperate to be a part of “the industry” and are willing to make damn near any sacrifice to get their foot in the door.

Yep.

What’s extra shitty is that these wages that employees are earning don’t hold a candle to the city they live in. Irvine is expensive as fuck. 860k average home cost. Why work for 100k there when you can get that same salary elsewhere, in a cheaper state, and without state taxes? Especially now that work from home is a…

of course

The same company that posted record results last year and then said “it could have been more record resulty” and laid off 10% of their workforce? That company?