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You guys,
Welcome to the fancy new http://www.videogum.com. When we first started planning our redesign, we knew we wanted the best, so we hired the Chief Web Programmer from Jukt Micronics and we said “we have two words for you: Geocities 3.5.” He stroked his waxed goatee for a minute and fiddled with his Dr. Who decoder ring, and then he he was like “OK, but I’m gonna need a case of Mountain Dew Code Black, a floor-length trenchcoat, and to live in my parents’ basement,” and we were like, “Done.”
In all seriousness, we are very excited about our new redesign. A lot of very smart people put a lot of very smart work into it, and we think that it looks great. But in addition to looking great, it’s also just going to function a lot better. You’re going to be seeing bigger photos, just as an example. I guess that’s about it, but that’s huge! Just kidding. I mean, there are going to be bigger photos, that was for real, but a lot of the ways in which the site has changed are for our own benefit. They are going to make it easier than ever before to bring you guys the latest in animal-based trampoline accidents, Topher Grace news, and NBC late night programming mistakes.
We would like to point out:
To regular readers: you have to reset your commenter passwords, but that is easy to do, and once accomplished, you should be able to post your hastily thought out reactions with the ease and comfort to which you have grown accustomed. To new readers: please register a commenter profile and join us! The revolution will not commented upon by unregistered users, and neither will this website. And although they are not quite ready for today’s launch date, the new Videogum is going to have a much-improved user experience with bells and whistles and nonsense. Monsters rejoice!
Of course, as with any new site, there will be bugs and glitches. Please be patient. And please help us to resolve them by pointing out anything that you think is wrong. Email us what you find along with what browser you are using, and possibly a screencap if necessary. It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes a bunch of anonymous people with too much time on their hands to fix a blog. (And please do check out the new Stereogum.com, it is great.)
We hope that you enjoy the new site as much as we do, and we welcome your feedback! Kind of!
Love,
Gabe.
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1. It hides comments that are downvoted. Those are the most entertaining to read!
2. Is anyone else getting a weird Facebook flash when they submit a comment? I don’t know how else to explain it, except a little Facebook box flashes on the screen but disappears before I get any helpful text. I don’t know how to stop it from doing that.
I got the weird Facebook thing as well. But for all the weird-ness that is going on, I can finally read Videogum on my iPhone without it taking a long time to load. Now I can finally read all these posts in my bathtub. I mean train.
An iPhone and a train? How rich are you? Topher?
What. You don’t have your own train?
It does kind of look like Gawker.
But at least there’s no Chatroulette.
Ach! This is all so confusing. Feel like I’ve stumbled into some real web 2.0 shit here.
By the way, hi it’s The Life of the Mind. I took this opportunity to change my display name since it’s long and unwieldy and I like this one better.
Forgive the following, I’m trying out the new image posting.
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This?
This?
that
[img=http://quizilla.teennick.com/user_images/A/AutumnSong123/1070289651_ffKermit_s.jpg] ?????????
CURSES, FOILED AGAIN
Try try again
I think I’m going to miss Spock in a bra the most. Even more then the paint splatter that reminded me of Nickelodeon.
Oh my god, you can’t view old comments…?
My issues are:
1. not being able to post images/gifs in the comments
2. the paged comment system
3. no reset button?!?
4. needed more zef.
That being said, I am a whiny 5-yr-old who wants his way, probably.
also, gabe, if you read this, people who are not signed in cannot see comment ratings. not sure if that qualifies as an issue, but just know that.
I get that there are a lot of kinks to work out, but I feel that this .gif problem should be top of the list. I don’t think any of us want this turning into .gifGate 2010 over here.
a) wtfffffffffffffffffffffffffff.
b) oh cool, my password didn’t work? what? i had to get a new password. never had an issue before.
c) ugh to finding all the comments through pages.
d) gif gif gif
e) we hate change. everyone hates change. where am i?
I’m so confused!
abcde: yes. I’m angry and confused.
f) I want to be able to roll over the icons to make them bigger so that I can continue to get a laugh out of the tiny print in yours and Huckabeast’s and so many others.
g) I also don’t like (complain complain complain! that’s all I ever do!) the older comments/newer comments button. Can’t they all just stay in one long thread? I don’t want to have to choose which set of comments to read — that’s a sure way to miss out on monster genius.
Gah I experienced password issues as well.
Gabe sure is taking this whole “reset button” thing pretty seriously.
What what what?? Right now I’m so confused and I don’t like it. But give me time, I’ll get used to it [I am 3 years old and I don't like change I WANT MY BINKY NOWWW]
I guess my main problem right now is just the black text on white background. It’s kind of boring. Also, lack of .gif posting is a big problem. Other than that ummm… uh… yeah. Grape job!
Is anybody else’s page showing the sidebar with the videos and most-commented and all that underneath everything else at the bottom of the page? Because that’s where my sidebar is. At first I thought that you had just taken it out completely until I scrolled all the way down.
umm…my avatar doesn’t animate anymore…and without the perpetual window cleaning I feel like less of a person? so i guess i’m going to have to get a new one…
and also change is hard. and i really need comment preview…
Also: could we still get day seperations? y’know how the old way was to seperate the days with like a bar or something that had the TUESEDAY FEBRUARY 23rd and below that yesterday’s TWFTT and then above that todays new lost reccap. Could we do that? Or someone? Someone should get to that while i find some more nits to pick.
Well, it’s not as overwhleming as the stereogum make-over.
papa like
Whoa. I feel like you have rearranged the furniture, and I am a cat. So, I will be on top of the refrigerator, nervous and hungry, for the foreseeable future.
Ack! Where is my picture of me?
meow?
I miss not having to login six times to get my post to show up (twice.)
Videogum’s change makes me feel like the skin on my body just got replaced suddenly. It’s like I just woke up in my new avatar body, except instead of a tall blue girl I’m a white square very small text?
*with very small text.
Sorry, this new body doesn’t know how to type.
<img src="http://i49.tinypic.com/2q1tq85.jpg" title="Birdemic"
Oh man, I came here and couldn’t for the life of me figure out was was going on. I thought my internet was just messing with me. I don’t want to be that person that complains, but, I am so confused! Give me time, VIdeogum. I need to get acclimated.
I hope they fix the GIF issue soon. 90% of my humour is based on stealing the GIFs funnier people post on other websites.
testing my avatar…
success! so glad that worked.
Dear Mr. Gabe Videogum Sir,
With respect to Jukt Micronics, this upgrade looks like a downgrade. V-gum suddenly looks generic. Your previous design shouted, “this is an interesting website! Get your trampoline-accident-news here! Read all about it!” Now it says, “this webzine could really be about anything, except for that it is probably about videos because it is called videogum I guess.” I mean to say that vgum’s hook was it’s vibrant design and the sinker was the content; now that the design is this bland there is only the content (“only” the content) which is to say there is only a sinker, which doesn’t make any sense for fishing in the interocean because that is not how e-fish work.
But maybe it’s just the shock; I am very puzzled & disoriented, like the time where I fell down & could not get up. Surely I have been too harsh. My eyes were just like, “no thank you,” & I was like “boo hoo hoo” & then I typed it up because of FEEDBACK.
Downvote away!
Give it a couple days. Perhaps you will discover that with the focus entirely on the content you actually fall in love with the content ALL OVER AGAIN! No distractions, captain.
Well, whatever this new alternate video-less Videogum is, I’m glad Samsung is proudly presenting it proudly. Behold.
No disrespect bro, but maybe should have saved that reset button maybe.
I think that is my new catch phrase: “No disrespect, bro.”
I stopped in last night (my time) while I’m guessing things were under construction – and it was like the internets had gone mad. I was so relieved to find an explanation this morning (my time)! It all looks very slick guys
Well Gabe, you’ve convinced me to stop lurking and join in so I can see the upvotes. Let’s paint, exercise, and log in!
I guess I should probably get a picture now, too.
you know, I used to look at the old Videogum sometimes and wonder “This blog is the Greatest, I wish it had a layout that was the Greatest too,”. and you know what? This new one is pretty great! So congratsuwelldone Jukt Micronics and ‘Gums everywhere
that said, I agree re: the preview comments issue, because I am super paranoid about making a bad post or a typo that I literally stress over them for MINUTES. do you know how long that is in internet time?
I mostly like this new change. Comment discrepancies seem to be fixed, registering to comment probably will remove about half of the idiots (this is mostly a stereogum problem), and when you want to see someone’s user page right away, you just type in videogum/user/whatevernameitis instead of before how there were user numbers. And maybe also you’ve fixed the problem where signing in to one gum, signs you out of the other?
And no duh that there are bugs here and there, like with animated icons and image html. But we’ll be fine! The only bad thing about the new layout is how shitty web2.0 and bland the design is. It doesn’t POP yknow?
I need my websites to POP.
ok, videogum. you have taken off your glasses. and while at first it was too jarring to comment on, i can now see that your dumb glasses were masking how super hot you are. now let’s go to homecoming together for reasons that are honorable and have nothing to do with childish bets.
I forgot my password to my “old” account and it has yet to send a PASSWORD DO OVER to my email. So, I have made a new account.
-like
to -unlike
I feel naked and alone.
Talk about evolving the beat!
A couple of other thoughts: Can we see the vote totals of each comment when we look at a profile? And can there be a table of contents such that, say, I am at work and I think, “Gosh, I could really use rereading all the thirtysomething recaps,” and then I click to a page of links to all the thirtysomethings. That would be fun (and weirdly, I couldn’t find ANY thirtysomethings just now, when I decided to go read them all here at work).
Yeah, WTF! The GIF avatars were the only thing this site had going for it. Okay, JK, but still. Sometimes I only have the patience for a 3 second moving object on infinite loop.
I’ve been reading stereogum and videogum for a long time and decided it’s about time I made an account! HELLO MONSTROUS WORLD!
We’re gonna need a bigger AVATARS you guys.
Remember I’m a 72-year-old man and I can only see a series of colored blobs when they’re 50×50.
This place is freaking me out right now. I feel like I woke up in alternate 1985 or some sort of Lost flash-sideways.
No offense to Jukt Micronics, but, to quote Mr. Horse, “No sir, I didn’t like it.”
This redesign finally got me to sign up. I am ready for my now official Videogum journey. Take it away Internet.
Just testing the new site here, wanna make sure i’m in good with the lawnmower man.
Just testing the photo…this is scary…
this blows….bring the old one back….
Hey guys – I had password issues (as mentioned above), and had to request a new one. When I got the new one, there was a link in the email or a link where I logged back in or something that directed me to my profile page in the WordPress admin area.
Fortunately I use WordPress for sites and so it didn’t totally confuse me, and I was able to create a new password. But that could really throw some folks off. Also, maybe I could have totally messed with the site, but I don’t think I really had the privileges to do so, although I didn’t really try that hard (only a little)
So just a word of warning. You may want to look into how that happened.
OK, so I like just noticed that there was an actual post/thread right next to this one which is explicitly dedicated to password troubles, and that this is already being talked about. So feel free to point and laugh at me.
website redesign? more like same thing
You really blew the Youth In Revolt money, guys.
Bland.
everything is so god damn ugly. rare miss gabe, rare miss
okay after several deep breathes, I would like to offer some Constructive criticism instead of just shitting all over the place.
1) the logo. SERIOUSLY? -_-
2) this stupid buzzmedia publishers thing at the bottom. Was that always there before? do we REALLY need to have ‘from the makers of BRODYJENNER and KIMKARDASHIAN and OKMAGAZINE.com’ in our face?
3) the purple and grey; just a little too basic and amateurish.
4) i do miss the whole ‘enlarged avatar when you hover your mouse over it’
Honestly, nobody likes change but I dont even think thats really it. The redesign is sloppy. It’s childish, its Ugly, and it just doesnt look like it took a lot of time or thought.
Obviously Gabe, I would like to think our relationship is stronger than this car crash of a design, but please, know that a lot of us kind of fucking hate this.
I like it. Very Dylan goes electric.
Seriously though, is anybody else’s sidebar at the bottom of the page like mine is?
I’ve been having major eye issues recently, and this layout is brutal on my diminishing vision. My only comforts lately have been reading Videogum and watching old Doctor Who episodes in my mom’s basement.
Thanks for adding insult to injury, Gabe.
The page-ing of the comments is pretty unbearable. I like being able to start with the first comment and seamlessly follow the thread to most recent. Feel me?
it’s pretty hard to monster vicariously with the thread like this. the internet was not built in 4 days by juggalo fairies fed on narcissism for me to need patience and conscientiousness to fly through it on my mind unicorn.
that being said, “seamlessly”?
Gabe this is seriously giving me a headache trying to understand this.
Also, it’s not keeping me signed in?
“Relax, technoeveryone.” -Gabe right now, probably
Just when I thought I was comfortable and happy, that I had found a home…
Tardy to the party, as always.
It’s like that scene in Grosse Point Blank when John Cusack rolls up to the front of his old house, and it’s an Ultimart. “You can never go home again Oatman…but I guess you can shop there.”
Anyway, like any good monster, I’ll bitch about this for a few days and then forget the old layout completely.
Cusaktastic!
Finally got a chance to play o-round in our new jungle gum and gum set and gum bars. love it.
Now I know how Glenn Beck feels. JK. I fucking hate Glenn Beck. Whatever the tissues were, hope this makes it better. The ability to adapt is what allows a species to survive, or something like that. Charles Darwin. Or something.
I tried resetting my password multiple times. I was told an email was sent but nothing appeared in my inbox. I finally gave up and just started a new account. Other than that, the new site looks awesome and I love the layout.
hey guys!
i’m a little drunk and decided its finally time to stop lurking (i’ve been lurking for a really long time!) and start participating. the new videogum provided the impetus. it’s like a brand new day.
Wow, my head fell off when the new site loaded. Looks great, Gabe! But I am going to miss the grab-ass game of trying to click on the “most viewed” section and having the advertisement in the top menu bar leap out at me. I created a new account also, because the email never showed up. I would like to have this as a fresh start. A new leaf. Geocities forever.
It’s taken me a couple of days, but I love the new redesign!!!
are upvoting and thus monster’s ball gone, or am I missing something?
j/k i was missing a whole lot of things. shamed.
My powers have been restored!!!
k….i am not interwebs savvy…what was the code you used to do that?
more testing! ⇑ please forgive! ♥∗ ∇
so…no code? just post the url? …is there some code i should be posting but am not?
you think this would be easy but i am still so confused…
OH MY GOD YES. it IS so good!
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just link:
a href:
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Team Scientific Method
Hi, thanks for welcoming me to the site!
Darn you for making have to stop lurking and actually register and whatnot in order to see the upvoting/downvoting going on here. How else will I know which comments to read? I have important dicking around on the internet to do; I need to be expedient in my Videogum viewing.
That said, the site upgrade is definitely the interwebs equivalent of next level beats.
*making me have to stop lurking. Wow, first comment ever FAIL.
omg! it took me two days to realize that image is from lawnmower man!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcwQUjFuGGY
I prefer Lawnmower Man to new site. Change not doing me good Sheryl Crow.
Does this new logo make my Videogum tshirt obsolete, or “vintage”?
Does it work?
http://tinypic.com/r/2146ro7/6
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