[joshes]

I cannot really help this inescapable feeling that the new design is somewhat obnoxious. It's just... there's something about the design that I just cannot get past. This will only serve to further decrease my already declining viewership.

[timtadh]

Perhaps it is the sticky "menu" bar on top. Is it just me or do other people really despise these sticky bars that people like to stick on the top/bottom of their sites.

[CoffeeDregs]

I despise the valueless menu bars that people stick to the top/bottom of the frame... e.g. those dumb social bars...

But the idea that a menu bar moves up/down with the page content is a holdover from print media. A tasteful and useful menu bar that sticks to the top of the frame is a very useful piece of UI; why is the world should I have to scroll to the `top of the page to find the menu? GMail does it nicely. I think the Techcrunch bar is actually pretty useful (even if I think the rest of the design is straight 1996).

[jerrya]

I desire to buy larger and larger monitors, am forced to buy HD aspect ratio monitors, and then find all these webmasters spooging all over my monitor with their various toolbars and spambars and crapbars and wastebars and iebars until I eventually get back to a 320x240 pixel screen.

When I see these toolbars, I just want to reach out through the intertubes to find the developer and cut off his damned fingers to prevent him ever writing any more code...

Yes, it's just you. :)

[RossDM]

+1 for Richard Mlynarik reference and 'wastebars'.

[rockarage]

Yes it has loud obnoxious green look, techcrunch used green before, but I never payed much attention to it until now. And the headlines font size is loud with a Huffington Post attention whoring feel.

That said, I agree with others, the nav bar is cool as well as hiding / restyling the share widgets. Still too much green and loud type.

[espeed]

The logo is emitting a lot of green noise. And there's a lot going on in the overall design -- it doesn't evokes emotions that compel me to stay.