Billboard and Drowned In Sound have been redesigned this last week:

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http://www.drownedinsound.com/

I don't think I have ever seen DiS even mentioned on ILM before. Is there a reason for this?

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/index.jsp

From the few seconds I spent on here navigating, it's impressive. I usually avoid this site because it was so slow but now I can see visiting it more often.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Thursday, 3 November 2005 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

drowned in sound looks quite nice but appears to have 'borrowed' heavily from pitchfork in terms of visual style.

billboard looks a bit disjointed and dense despite the relatively minimal look.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 3 November 2005 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

Too much flash on Billboard - which leaves big white spaces on my work PC.

That 65daysofstatic piece on DiS is horrendous. The design style does feel too PFM too.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 3 November 2005 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

btw when is Stylus going to sort out the line-height of it's text and change the colour so it is more different from the background colour? ;)

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 3 November 2005 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

The writing on Drowned In Sound is for the post part absolutely horrible. One of the worst well read music sites i think. The re-design makes it look like Pfork.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Thursday, 3 November 2005 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Influenced it might be, but it's MUCH better organised than PFM. Which is neither visually appealing, or ordered on the page with any degree of logic (other than the positioning of the advertising placements). It's just a fucking carcrash.

Only Playlouder on the web is quite so bad (though I'll admit that site is fairly snazzy & original visually, just a little unreadable in the process).

I don't like the DiS content much unfortunately. Just not quite my taste... But I will consider it worth checking now, the live listings search seems useful. So I have to say, a successful makeover!

― login name (fandango), Thursday, 3 November 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

btw when is Stylus going to sort out the line-height of it's text and change the colour so it is more different from the background colour? ;)

a; I have no idea what this technobablejargon even means and b; I just write words, man!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 3 November 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Today is:

World Usability Day
http://www.worldusabilityday.net/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 3 November 2005 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Prefix also recently redesigned:

http://www.prefixmag.com/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 3 November 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

How strange I already thought Prefixmag was fairly new. Was going there a lot but haven't for some time now.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

Fabulous site.

― 93ddd6fdbd@lpv.lv, Sunday, 23 April 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

thanks we work really hard at it.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 23 April 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

neither visually appealing, or ordered on the page with any degree of logic (other than the positioning of the advertising placements). It's just a fucking carcrash.

Heh. Looks like it works for myspace so what do I know :)

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 23 April 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

M@tt more sadly otm than most of us would care to admit

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, 23 April 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

DiS get the Murdoch treatment : http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2490371

― mark e, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago)

I just spent a few minutes at bb.com trying to figure out what the redesign was when I saw the date stamp on the post. Hate when that happens.

― musically, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 02:11 (seventeen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Looks like it's shutting down

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| THE END |
| IS |
| NIGH. |
| 😪😪😪 |
| _＿＿＿＿＿_|
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/ 　づ
— Drowned in Sound ⚓️ (@DrownedinSound) April 4, 2019

― groovypanda, Thursday, 4 April 2019 09:08 (six years ago)

easy to be hardnosed and cynical, but this does feel like the end of an era for me.
I watched how Sean moved the site from being a homegrown bedroom op to a fully blown, money making company.
I watched in awe while I was stuck at home being a full time dad.
yeah, I was envious of how he made the leap, but he put the work in and made it work.
I wont deny, the music they covered was never my thing (nor were the boards), but I always checked in to see what was going on.

― mark e, Thursday, 4 April 2019 18:34 (six years ago)

oh i guess i'd better rescue the one piece i have up at drowned in sound, then again i don't care

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 April 2019 18:36 (six years ago)

HA!

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 4 April 2019 19:16 (six years ago)

it really sucks how often it happens that I'll say, in conversation, "literally just today, a music closed down/had layoffs," and then the next day it continues to be true

― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:50 (six years ago)

s/music/music site

― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:50 (six years ago)

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