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A new coat of paint
Most days are the same. Wake up. Stretch. Grumble to the wife. She grumbles back. Tea, toast. Maybe an egg. Whip out your phone at the breakfast table, check the news. Mostly bad. Check The Reg to see what they’re on about today.
“Whaaaaaaaa????”
Some days are different. Today is one of those days. After more than two decades of the same old look, Vulture Central has a new coat of feathers.
The new design is the most visible sign of a months-long series of changes you probably haven’t noticed, all meant to pay down some age-old technical debt and free up our tech team to build new things rather than constantly patching up the old site with tape and glue. We’ll explain more about exactly what we did and why in the very near future – the tech team is still working on making sure everything’s ship-shape today.
Functionally, the new layout is meant to give you easier access to the newest and best stories we’re writing every day – due to a strange quirk of the old system, we could only ever feature four stories “above the fold,” and none of them could be our newest, or else they’d duplicate immediately below. Now we can place a lot more up top. You can browse our RSS feeds here, or check out our 27 years’ worth of articles covering all things IT over in our archives here. We’ve come a long way from our ’90s look.
There’s also a new navigation bar along the top of the desktop version of the site for quick access to topics you care about. Want to see something new up there? Let us know; it’s easy to change. If you want to see the same sections you’ve always seen, they’re all available through the hamburger menu, as they call it in internet design lingo – those three little lines at the top left (top right on mobile).
Explore a little. If you see something that’s obviously buggy or strange or wrong, let us know. If you just generally hate it, we will accept your abuse in the name of lowering your blood pressure, but, honestly, it’s quite unlikely to change anything. And we’re always happy to accept your compliments – vultures have hearts, too.
Thanks are in order to our CEO Phil Mitchell, who initiated and shepherded this project along, CTO Matt Proud and his profoundly amazing team of technical wizards, and our EMEA deputy editor Jude Karabus. We’ll be very glad to have her back full-time writing and editing. ®
