Well it seems the Daily Herald did not like it's old site, well this new site is different, I personally do not like this new site it is hard to work with, the daily herald has erased all of my old posts, the Daily Herald seems to not care what the old posters want or care to ask how they would feel about a change so I guess this site will go dead like all the other sites who have changed to this format, Well it was fun while it lasted but now the Daily Herald is just like all the other sites borring so I say good by and Daily Herald you suck......

I have to agree. I do not like this new site at all. It is awful!

Not even really sure where this post will show up. I wonder what the reasoning was behind this? Did they look at other successful board software? Did someone just sell them on this? Sadly to me this is to bright, garish, confusing. It is full of eye candy, seems to accentuate the advertising more. The software does seem a little bit smarter but that does not make up at all for the rest of it regressing. So often simple is better.

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Well it seems the Daily Herald did not like it's old site, well this new site is different, I personally do not like this new site it is hard to work with, the daily herald has erased all of my old posts, the Daily Herald seems to not care what the old posters want or care to ask how they would feel about a change so I guess this site will go dead like all the other sites who have changed to this format, Well it was fun while it lasted but now the Daily Herald is just like all the other sites borring so I say good by and Daily Herald you suck......

Just can't leave well enough alone.

I hope The Daily Herald didn't pay money for this new software. It has an extremely slow response to queries, taking twice as long or more to respond compared to the old software.

The new site has the looks and feel of an intern project for UVSC/BYU students.

I guess this should have been expected. Now, instead of a fairly easy site to use, the web masters have joined managed to get the overall quality of the web site more in line with the Herald's reporting capabilities.

Two words: Complicated and non-intuitive.

Suggestion to the DH: Give it a couple of weeks, watch your online readership fall off because of the complicated site...and then bring the old format back. That is, if you care about having online readers, that is.

The old format could have stood for some improvements, but at least one could get around in it. Not with this one! You sure didn't build on the previous site. Starting over is usually never a good idea...you threw the baby out with the bath water!

I will say kudo's to you though. You started a trend, in that some of our local papers have began allowing discussion of their articles on line. That IS a good thing!