(I'm part of the team working on the redesign.) Actually, the site visible (for a few days now as of 2009-01-06) is not our final, polished, presentable site. It is only a working draft that was tossed on in a hurry because of unresolvable technical problems with the old one. Stay tuned for the _real_ new site, which we expect to be up in a Short While.
It may be better, but it's not beautiful.<p>The grey gradient drastically reduces contrast (grey text! grey buttons! black logo!) while making the whole thing feel "muddy." The antialiasing on the big logo is whacked out, & makes me feel like I've got an astigmatism. Similar is true of the small logo at the top left: the grey/red contrast is of the type that causes a visual distortion similar to motion/line blurring.<p>Reflections are so 2007.<p>The body text is too small.<p>Links aren't underlined.<p>None of the blog items or updates are actually links. Neither is the feed icon. Neither are the Featured App, Github, or Chat blocks.<p>What's up with that?