
Where people want to go, because of the place itself. A digital manifestation of a physical location, where people come and go but some stability remains. And that is part of a larger concept, the website as a place. The first is that visitors to the site aren’t wrong to feel they have a claim on it - “your” furniture is being moved. (It’s like coming home and finding someone’s moved your furniture.)” That tossed-off parenthetical suggests a few things. While he said the new site “has allowed us the flexibility to add more content and try new things,” he understood why long-time readers might be upset about The AV Club‘s new layout: “When you’re used to seeing something in a certain way, it isn’t always pleasant to have things tossed around. Everybody and their grandmother has one, why do we have to have one on a site such as this? What is happening here?”Ī few days later, movie critic Scott Tobias weighed in with a comment of his own. The colors look like baby poop, blogs has the scum of the internet.


The first comment on editor Keith Phipps’ first blog was positive! Others there and in the forum were less so, along the lines of “The redesign however is bad. The website of The Onion‘s arts section relaunched with a new design and a few new features - a message board where readers could talk pop culture and a blog that, unlike the site’s reviews and features, allowed comments. Central Time, on July 25, 2005, The AV Club became fully aware of its readers.
