i do miss the analysis and deeper commentary. but i also get that good analysis takes time that these probably underpaid freelancers don’t have the way they did under ESJ’s editorial tenure

(i’m the one lunatic who was fairly regularly in Sims’ corner, and like Yoshida he’s one whose career i’ve greatly enjoyed…

It’s a novel that was a massive hit when it came out over 40 years ago and then fell into relative obscurity. That’s what they mean by “dad book”. It didn’t have the “legs” that similar bestsellers like Dune, Stephen Kings’ assorted novels, Anne Rice’s vampire series, or even V.C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic have had…

I don’t think she was as dismissive as you’re making her out to be; she said it was “apparently really good.” Stereotypically speaking, dads are into books about WW2; would you say calling those “dad books” is saying they lack substance?

We knew from the moment we were told we’d be moving to Kinja that it would be a major overhaul. We knew we’d be trying to take a decade-plus of content—filed according to its own complex, not exactly modular organization system—and fit into someone else’s platform, then asking the administrators of that platform to…

I recognize this isn’t your fault and the AV Club team seems to be working hard at making this conversion work for us regulars... but I do have to question why these issues - which are not minor - weren’t addressed before the changes went live.

Laura, it’s certainly not your fault, Gizmodo Media Group does a terrible job of communicating to the fan base of its numerous interconnected sites. I had to do my own research to learn the fate of The Onion (it’s apparently being integrated to GMG too, though its unclear what that means or how it works). This…

Ok next question—with the new site layout, what’s the best way to find old TV club reviews? I’m often (ok always) way behind on most shows, but I like reading the AV Club reviews anyway, even if I’m too late to join in the discussion. The old site had that handy “Find shows” drop-down in the TV Club section on the…

If you did a “burner account” then they already gave you a password, which you better have held onto, because they don’t give them out again. Otherwise, you were most likely prompted to log in through Facebook/Twitter/Google, in which case you don’t really have a password.

Can’t even see review scores without clicking on a review!

Well it worked and I’m here and Kinja still... not great. Who is happy with this site layout? How did the writers and editors for every blog here just say, yeah, 75% white space is a good aesthetic, we’re cool having no semblance of organization to search past topics.

Welcome! You’ll hate it here.

Wow. Fuck this site.

Load more comments. Load more comments. Load more comments. Load more comments. Boy, this is fucking fun, huh?

There’s only 88 posts at the time of posting this and two things pop out immediately

Lol no.

I don’t know how to downvote!

I just went to like your comment, but only found a star. I don’t know what to do with that.

I agree - was the goal to severely limit the amount of content we can see without scrolling?

First feedback on the home page:

Oh goddammit. I had assumed the layout wouldn’t change to full on Kinja, but I was wrong.