User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Prototype for a new article layout/@comment-227331-20150112093908

I remember when they threw out monaco for oasis, and everyone called out just how much of a huge mess it was... in fact the ONLY thing people were fond of was that the ads wouldn't break up the text anymore. The staff fussed about how (even though they completely ignored user testing) corporate survey said that fixed width was the way of the future! The floating Rail was to be a useful toolbar! They NEEDED to make the rail that huge because a big company like them somehow couldn't negotiate with the ad men. So many of us ditched because of it and just how awful the layout changes were.

And then, bit by bit they tweaked it to be like monaco again, people lost their minds over how now they had to plan around fluid width... which had been common design for years by that point. And with the change to darwin, I laughed and lauuuughed.

And now I'm laughing stil, because it's like opposite world where they took a few good ideas from monaco and threw out the rest, and just shoved all the bad ones in. I just. keep at it guys, perhaps one day you'll go full circle and just spend a ton on layout design... and the end result will be a point for point remake of Monaco, all over again.

I'll be over here, lurking, popcorn at the ready.