Redesigning TechCrunch: We Picked This Logo Just to Piss You Off

The logo truly is a horrifically bad design, so much so that I just don't buy the claim that it is intentionally bad. That's just an attempt to save face because it is bad.<p>Glad to hear they are working on the speed problem. I solved it a while back by installing every ad blocker I could find.<p>edit: oh gosh, it's worse than I thought. The small squares of the 3 size grid on the right are a slightly different size than the 4 size grid of the logo. You can't convince me that is intentionally bad, that's just bad, sloppy, terrible work.

Looks like a ripoff of Linode's logo, topped with a bit of Minecraft texture.

The amount of hollow marketing speak in this post suggests it's a rationalization after the fact. Which usually indicates the original criteria was mostly a matter of "ooh, that looks pretty".<p>Not that there's anything wrong with that, but the need to rationalize intuitive decisions with BS phrases like "It’s a design that breaks more news than its competitors, that loves the code junkies working 22-hour days to build world-changing products." makes me want to barf.

Are the black boxes instead of images on purpose?<p><a href="http://imgur.com/fw52e" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/fw52e</a>

I'm not a fan of the overall design, but the way the logo disappears into the top bar (scroll slowly) is pretty darn cool.

It's really not that bad. I hated the new Facebook layout before liking it again. Who knows how I'll feel in a few weeks.<p>It's all about metrics anyways. If this layout raises activity on site or visits, then good job. If not, I'm sure they'll do edits.<p>Why do we just bash TC like no other?

And a follow-up post, <i>A Copy-And-Paste Hatemail Template</i> <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/11/the-techcrunch-redesign-a-copy-and-paste-hatemail-template/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/11/the-techcrunch-redesign-a-c...</a>

Here's an extension to remove it :)<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enejibegbgfghbnanppenmkjenhjjdmn" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enejibegbgfghbnanp...</a>

Another great reason to ignore the site.

Good thing I only read TC in a feed reader. Then I don't have to actually visit the site anymore.

Impressed. Looks pretty good. But those titles with the green remind me of The Onion.

Why do I think of Breitbart every time I think of TechCrunch?

Why does loading TechCrunch take me 9 seconds? What exactly are they doing to cause such a slow load? Why does a page load for them require 330 requests?

Mission Accomplished.

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