This topic was created by Alistair .
Is someone playing with layouts again???
"News Bytes" ????
Also -- fonts. I thought I'd borked a font recently - -but noticed that the footers are sometimes using really odd fonts.... < not the text blob at the bottom, the text wrappers around the footer articles >
See here -> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/05/welcome/
Yea, I agree, now there is virtually nothing to read on the front page, two squeezed mini articles. Its getting harder and harder to get to the information you need on this site - and I'm looking on a 4K monitor ATM!
Even the person who tried to squeeze it in there realised it was a bad move as they used tiny, tiny fonts for things. Its completely unreadable on the iphone and in general, its getting harder to read el reg from the train due to the random pictures.
Please understand your visitors and what we come here for.
I've not got time to play hunt the article each time I come here. --
Is it in the top right call-out area, nope, Is it in the body area, nope, Is it under the call-out area for the mega article in the middle, nope, its fallen off into older stories.
Suggest removing the new pane, or if you really must have it, then put it where all the pointless pictures are on the right hand side.where it says spotlight as I never use those either.
If you are stuck for space, you could also look de-cluttering the home page and using fluid layouts, 50% of my browser window is whitespace in empty columns. I made the browser that size so you can use it ...
You could also let users customise their page layout after login give me the option to hide the cruft I'm not interested in. then you get some real info on what people want.
For those who want to hide the pane, the div is called news_bytes, so a tweak of the css to display:none; works a treat. I've added the Stylish add-on to chrome to automate that for me.
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In addition they seem to be trying to squeeze not one but two adverts in the header above the main Register logo. It doesn't seem to happen all the time, but presumably now that they've had the larger adverts on occasion for a while now they decided they'd use the same expanded space for more than one advert.
https://patrick.seurre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/register_ad3.PNG
It's as if somebody on their end is on a crusade to get as many people as possible to use ad blockers.
A question for the staff here: if it's a choice between a user seeing a single small advert or none at all, surely the small alternative is the best out of the two?
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Personally I think the website could be improved just by keeping things as regular as possible. Something like the following screenshot for example (Chrome's developer tools can be useful for changing stuff sometimes) . There could be far more tweaks made, and perhaps the red/grey combination could be changed to something slightly better, but at least the font sizes are kept pretty much the same, and the borders - which seemed almost random sometimes - are minimised.
Personally I'd also suggest getting rid of the photos in the 'most read' section and having a similar bold style title/normal style summary used in the 'news bytes' section.
Thoughts?
https://patrick.seurre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/register_styles_changed.PNG
I block certain IP addresses if I tend to only see hacking attempts come from them. Which ISP do you use?
In any case I'll look at the rules in place this evening. Presumably your visit - or attempted visit at any rate - will show up in the access log so I should with any luck be able to figure out why that happened.
Deutsche Telekom AG / t-online
Unless I spoof it, but I'm pretty sure I tried without it.
Do I get bragging rights as a high-level cybercriminal now?
Not quite. I did actually block that entire ISP a while ago and then forgot about it. At the time literally zero visits from any .de visitor were 'real' (i.e. they often requested specific pages and none of the supporting files, often multiple times and within very short spaces of time which is a bit of a giveaway when checking for bots). Plenty of visits were on the other hand dodgy and I even had one bot regularly try and scrape my site using the same ISP as you (called 'finbot' apparently).
In any case I've disabled the rule I believe was blocking you. It's not something I can easily check myself however so if you still have issues give me a shout.
I always skip the "top stories" - they're duplicates - and can easily ignore the right hand column of old stories as they look like ads and I'm pretty much banner blind these days.
Please move the "news bytes" out of the useful reading area - I suggest moving it into the right hand column where it's out of the way.
Very quick and dirty Tampermonkey script:
[code]
// ==UserScript==
// @name The Register clutter elimination
// @namespace http://moteprime.org/
// @version 0.1
// @description Eliminate duplicate story areas
// @author Sean Ellis
// @match http://www.theregister.co.uk/
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
/* jshint -W097 */
function addCss(cssString) {
var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head') [0];
var newCss = document.createElement('style');
newCss.type = 'text/css';
newCss.innerHTML = cssString;
head.appendChild(newCss);
}
addCss(
'#top_tease { display: none ! important; } ' +
'#news_bytes { display: none ! important; } ' +
'#right-col { display: none ! important; } ' +
'.dont_miss { display: none ! important; } ' +
'.story_grid_img { display: none ! important; } ' +
'.headline_row.hidden { display: inline ! important; } '
);
[code]
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