Hello, and welcome to the newly updated Electrek website (if you aren’t reading this on Google News, Apple News, RSS, etc). We’ve spent the last year working on a cleaner, easier look and feel, and together with our partners at 10up, we have created the new Electrek.co.
We’d love to get some feedback in the comments… and speaking of comments…
OpenWeb Comments
Top comment by kbrannen
Since I've never heard of OpenWeb, I'll withhold comment on it until I've used it some.
Quick reaction? Too much whitespace wasted, vertically which forces more scrolling and horizontally wasted too (especially on the right side). I miss the comment count with the article title. I just hit the End button to jump to the end of the line after an edit and it threw me at least 5 pages down (why?). I don't know, some of my dislike might be just because it's changed, but there are definitely some pain points here.
I do hope threading works better. I did dislike how Disqus would stop indenting after about 3 or 4 levels which made figuring out who a person was replying to difficult. There's not enough back and forth replies here yet to know how that will work.
@Fred, please ask about the change again after a month to give us time to really get to know it, and for your team to fix the bugs. I think you'll get better feedback then after the newness has worn off.
Update 1:
Harder to see when replies are here. The "blue text" of "2 new replies" on Disqus was easy to see. Maybe add some color here to help?
Disqus had those "3 new comments above/below" notifications to help you know new comments had been added, which I really liked. I don't see anything like that here.
Not only is the site updated, we’ve moved from Disqus comments to OpenWeb, which is evolving much faster and has created a great set of moderation tools to help us surface the gold in comments and throw out the trash. It also has better nesting options than Disqus, and we’re even bringing the top/featured comment right into the stories via widget.
OpenWeb is used by WSJ, AOL, Yahoo, and many other major publishing platforms.
Over the past few months, we’ve been slowly rolling it out across our network. If you visit 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, 9to5Toys, DroneDJ, Space Explored, or Connect the Watts, you can already get a feel for how it works. OpenWeb is a much faster platform than we currently use, so we know readers will appreciate it. A new ‘Popular in the Community’ section will appear under posts highlighting some of the most active conversations on the site that might be worth your time. Below is a screenshot from 9to5Google.
We know you have countless options for your EV and green energy news, reviews, and commentary, so we appreciate each and every reader who is part of our community. All the comments and conversations on the Disqus platform will remain, and OpenWeb will only be used for new posts. You will need to sign up for a new account, and there will be plenty of one-click logins through your favorite social networks – or you can register for an account with just your email address. Sign-in with Apple is on the road map with OpenWeb as well.
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