[slowdown]

They don't need to re-shape the way their website looks, just the way they handle journalism. These guys are one of the few to bastardize journalism in the tech space. We want to read about News - about reporting what happens, exactly right? Not about what somebody else thinks of the news. And that's exactly what Techcrunch does - Steal the news from communities like Hackernews, Reddit, etc. and add their own bias, repackage and sell it with ads. Viola, money! Because AOL.

[cleverjake]

Neither here nor there. No reason to use a story about a redesign as a soapbox for your complaints, no matter how accurate they may be.

[mayneack]

Under the correct assumption that there was some effort to increase readership by this move, commenting that the design was not their biggest problem seems relevant enough for an internet comment.