I just saw the new look on Google News.
I hate it.
That is all.
Thoughts?
I’m not even beating a dead horse at this point, I’m just beating a bare bit of dirt, but all they would have to do is give you a place to input RSS feeds again and I’d use it every day.
I looked at it and immediately went back to classic look or whatever they call the old one.
@Exapno_Mapcase It didn’t offer me that option and I’ve not found how to do it. If it’s possible I’d be grateful for some good orderly direction on how to revert to the classic look. I’m viewing it on Chrome on my desktop.
I went to Chrome and couldn’t find the option so I checked on Google Community. Evidently Google has removed it.
I switched on Firefox back in October and it still comes up that way. I wonder how long that will stay true. As with so many other Google changes, they don’t like offering options.
I agree. A while back they asked if I wanted to try the new thing, so I tried it. Much worse. There are some headlines in one place, other headlines in a different place, and because things are in tiles it’s much harder to scan through the headlines than when it was just a list format.
So now my laptop is the new stupid way, and my work desktop is the old better way. I assume sometime the old way will go away.
I get most of my news through RSS feeds (and MPSIMS), but I used to visit google news probably once a day to scan for anything interesting I’d missed, or for breaking stories.
Any good alternatives?
Yahoo News is surprisingly good, drawing from a range of sources and providing an infinite scroll of headlines. All the articles are readable, unlike Google’s hits which often take you to a paywall.
That link should take you to News. However, if you pick Home instead of News you see something closer to Google’s new format even though it’s the same URL. (I don’t even know how I got to the page with the Home button. Was just clicking around the site.) Nor do I see any way to customize the results.
Nothing is perfect. Just go for the one that will irritate you least.
I don’t like it, either. For a while, it had changed over at home but still had the old version at work and I was hopeful it was some kind of of temporary experiment but it’s now everywhere.
Old way is better.
And that has nothing to do with me being old and stubborn. In this case, the old way was better.
Yeah, it looks like there’s no going back. When the piloted it earlier this year, they let folks opt for the “classic” style, which I did. Now we’re stuck with it.
I can barely believe how bad this has become. Like one and a half rotations of the scrollwheel top to bottom, click-baity headlines, just terrible. Google News used to be, for years, the one bit of internet I’d look at if no other like if in a hurry out the door and I’m now about to close the tab forever.
Firefox surrendered too. Stuck, I am.
Offering up this site as an alternative to Google News:
I’m using Chrome and I still get the old Google News page. I looked at the new version when it was first released, didn’t like it so I switched back. No change since then.
Can someone post a screencap of the new format? Mine, changed, but I didn’t think it changed THAT much. Most things were still pretty much where i expected them to be.
Here’s what it looks like for me now
There is a standard evolution of every change to a popular website’s design>
- The new design blows. They should have stuck with the old one.
- Well, it’s not as bad as I thought at first. Still a step back.
- It’s OK, I guess.
- (after another change). The new design blows. They should have stuck with the old one.
Repeat indefinitely.
There have been shining moments in the past, when a website’s design just works for most folks and is truly intuitive. But they never last long.
Google took something that was pretty good and made it worse. Worse by far.
Only one step to this one.
See what you say about it in five years.
I’ve seen this circle played out with every popular website on the Internet.