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I am not hating on it, but I feel they went a bit overboard with it. There are more of these ultra-modern looking news outlets like inverse.com for example, but I feel there's a lot more coherence in inverse's website than in this redesign.

And then the colour scheme of the comment section. NO. Just no.

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Usually new designs start out bold (and terrible) and are dialed back over time (to something sensible). Bloomberg springs to mind.

Coincidentally Bloomberg's bold design was ushered under Joshua Topolsky, one of The Verge's founders. He then went on to found The Outline, which arguably had an even bolder design. In many ways, The Outline's premise was the same as the new The Verge. I'm curious to see if The Outline was just to early, or whether the premise is just flawed.

Now he runs Input Magazine[1], which also has a lysergic aesthetics.

[1] https://www.inputmag.com

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