The first time I saw the new design, I thought my browser had done that thing it does every now and then (usually when I get a connection huccup) where it fails to load about three quarters of any given website so I don't get to see anything but the bare bones of the site's content on top of a blank screen.
That being said, the colour of a website I frequent (especially one I visit daily) is really of very little consequence to me. What matters to me is that I feel like I am being shown an adequate representation of the content, most especially that I get to be a hundred percent certain that I have seen absolutely everything that has been uploaded since I last visited. In this regard, the new design fails miserably.
I suppose the "latest" tab of the "news" box is supposed to do this and maybe it actually does, but a box that takes up less an eighth of my screen and has only five slots definitely doesn't count. If this functionality is not improved significantly, I will certainly cease to consider The Escapist a viable source for news and entertainment.
EDIT: Actually, that box isn't even a too-small version of what I am looking for. It is missing key content (The Big Picture uploads, for example). What I'm looking for is a single list of all Escapist uploads so that I can make sure I don't miss anything. Heck, it doesn't even have to be on the main page at all, as long as I can get to it relatively easily I can bookmark it from there.
