How did I never know that antlers could be furry?! Cute!

I'm wondering about this too. I really don't mind most of the redesign aspects, but I don't understand how the approval system works. I read the explanations, and they're not making it any clearer. Also I have a notification that someone recommended one of my posts, and now I can't find that post in the discussions…

According to a comment from one of the tech teams, once all of the sites are converted to Kinja, that's on the map. Right now the conversion isn't complete so it's difficult to provide content across the platforms. When it's all done, it'll be neat and tidy, so easy to do.

This same thing crossed my mind...it's going to be just like it was...a conversation between the same 10 people. *sigh* It was nice while it lasted.

Huge problem (or maybe I'm missing something): How do I get back to the main page/latest post view if I've clicked over to other comments? I've tried hitting the back button, which would normally take me back to where I left off, but I get sent back to the previous set of comments.

Onward! *bashes head on desk like it will magically turned back time to pre-Kinja*

Except now you have to click a million times to get through the comment threads, two at a time!

First, they came for Jalopnik and Deadspin, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a bro.

I'm curious about this, too. The most recent approved comment I'm seeing here is from about 90 minutes ago (and then there are earlier threads still languishing in the grey). Seems a bit of a wait, and I just don't understand the process by which comments get graduated to the main section... Annnd I'm dreading…

The pop-up comment box really doesn't seem to work properly (for me, anyway. And I'm on Chrome, not, like, IE or something). Whenever I move it to try to see the comment I'm responding to, the comments scroll randomly to the side so I can't see it.

It's especially bad in conjunction with how long it takes to scroll through comments-no one's going to bother going all the way to the back to see if anything's worth reading. Particularly when the recent comments are greyed out and there's a "here there be monsters" warning before you get to actually read them.

"Tabloid" is a good analogy—all the giant images with occasional stories make is slow going, and it's clear that the focus is on, well, gawking rather than reading.

The only thing that ticks me off about the new design is that there aren't links to the other sites at the bottom of the page, like before. I could start at Gawker, jump to Jezebel, make a quick stop at Kotaku, and finish at io9 with no fuss or muss.

Ah, here comes the horrible commenting system that's been inflicted on the other Gawker sites. Gone are the days of actually being able to read comments without clicking 50 times to go side to side. GOD, I can't wait for someone to get us an extension to fix this, since the "we're working on it" promises have come…

Well, yup, time for comments not deemed "awesome enough" to be relegated to the Gray Lands, hiding our attempted contributions out in the wasteland along with all those stray MRAs and people whose mother's best friend's neighbor made $85 an hour. *sigh*

So how long does it take to get your comment "approved" or out of the pending queue? I notice on Deadspin that comments sit there for-evah for reasons that are inexplicable to me. Hope that does not happen here.

It's ginormous on the screen and I hate the pop-up comment box. So will there be actual moderation now or are we stuck with the MRA nutjobs and racists

Oh dear. The contagion from io9 has spread like swine flu. Oh well. "Progress" won't stop for anyone. But perhaps someone could explain why the letters we now have to click on to do things don't seem to relate to the thing I'm trying to do. Like why did I have to click on "L" to post this comment. What's "L" got to do…

The bloody irony of this redesign is it looks a lot like the blog view the website had back in the day when I first started reading.

Boo.