BuzzFlash Has Two Home Sites: Choose Your Option!

I prefer the old site, "Classic Buzzflash." The new site is way too busy and the gray is depressing. It was so easy to maneuver  around the old site.  I know you wanted to improve things but to use the old cliche, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."  Thanks for the opportunity to choose.

Freddie

hypatiab7 I hate the new page. To me, it is a sea of gray boxes and is hard on the eyes. If you decide to get rid of the classic page, you will also be getting rid of me, my monthly donation and the many books, cds and other things I purchase. You could have saved your money by making improvements or additions on the old page. I do like the addition of the videos on the old page. But, if you really think we oldies need to be reminded whether or not we've already read an article, you could simply put a red check mark at the end of the article's title. No biggie. The new page is totally unnecessary and ugly.

You have added so many bells and whistles lately that it is almost impossible to read anything. We are reading a news site, not something to do with celebrities or magazines. We are actually thinking and analyzing while reading your site and I for one can do without all the distractions. For a while you just went to one spot to comment in the mailbag and now I have to go through two steps to get there. I really can live without some of this junk.

I checked in today for the first time in weeks and saw this option, good move. I had already taken buzz off my favorites and stopped checking it daily because of how terrible I thought the new site was.

I suggest you put a clear link on the top of the page to the Classic version. I was lucky to have found the info further down, I could easily have missed it, and I'd have been gone again. If other "refugees" come back to check in, I think you want to make the Classic option obvious to them before you lose them again.

Are you planning to offer the Classic BuzzFlash permanently? If so, I will continue to contribute. You have been my main source for information and opinions. I do not find the new design user friendly. It is difficult to read. If you are not going to offer the Classic, I will use other sites and contribute to them. Please let us know if it will be a permanent choice which would make me especially happy.

The classic style is much more readable.  The ability to quickly and easily scan a large number of articles and zero in on the interesting ones is one of the attractive features of BuzzFlash.  (Along with reporting the information that the corporate media try to cover up.)

Add my name to the list. My wife and I had just made a contribution and now I regret it. What had been  an easily scanned headline page was turned into 1960s interior decoration with a few sans serif letters here and there as background to a Scandinavian International foreground. I like 1960s home decor but not in newspapers or books. It’s only the return of ‘classic’ BuzzFlash that has me here at all now; well, okay, I was considering writing a CSS overlay. But, either way, the money is being wasted on flash at the expense of quality. (And my wife also had immediately stopped reading BuzzFlash, until I discovered the return of ‘classic’.)

I suspect the main reason younger people would prefer the new site, if they really do (given that the style of the new page is 50 years old and tasteful – for furniture and floor lamps), is that they aren’t as skilled at scanning a page or as inclined to do so.

I like the Classic Buzz, but I am put off by the pleas for $$ at a time when you are making (unnecessary) change to the site.  I found it a problem to contribute after you started putting up videos -- which no doubt makes your bandwidth usage go up, adding to the expenses.  It wasn't broke, but you tried to fix it anyhow.