I like it, but all uppercase on tags is yucky and pullquotes floated to the left flow off the page on smaller browser windows.

This looks really great.  I’m glad to see you moving away from reverse chronological to something that gives the reader more clues about what to look at and why.

The “look” is nice, but can I be contrarian? I liked reverse chron. I could easily scan back to wherever I left off. Now, I have to go to Archives even to read some of yesterday’s stuff. I was looking for two recent installments of “Links on Twitter” — none of them were on the front page; searching with or without quotes failed to bring them up, and in Archives it’s three clicks deep. Also, on page one there are no dates. Some stories have a green box showing elapsed time, but others don’t, so I have no idea how recent those things are. Dates would be preferable, on all items. Could you at least keep the iPhone app chronological?   

There’ll be lots of good Fuego-related stuff in the coming days/weeks, and yes, we’ll have both an RSS feed and a couple of dedicated views to Fuego, both real-time and archival. Stay tuned!

Hey Martin — the specific issue you mention, looking for older Links on Twitter posts, will go away soon as the Links on Twitter posts get replaced with something better. Was hoping to have that ready for launch but didn’t — look for it in the next week or two. Everything on the front page actually is in reverse chronological order, with the exception of the featured-art slot on the top left — everything else is in order (most recent middle column top, then flowing down that col, then the right col, then to the cols below Fuego).

While you do lose something by not going bloggy and having the big excerpts we had on the old design, the downside of that is that a post a day old would be something like 3-4-5 screenfuls down the page as other stuff got pushed in on top of it. (Some of it stuff like Links on Twitter, which was always kind of awkwardly shoveled in — I hated it that a LoT post would be the top thing on the site through every evening/night and all weekend, just because it was the last thing we posted during the day.)

(FYI, re: the green bars, they’re on posts less than 24 hours old.)

You may not have found the LoT posts via search because the default now is sort-by-relevance, not sort-by-date (which is the WordPress default). You can choose sort-by-date by clicking the button at the top of search results. 

Basically, part of my thinking was to deemphasize chronology on the front page because so many of the people for whom that would matter a lot follow us on Twitter or subscribe to our daily email or pull our RSS — they’ve got their own delivery mechanism set up. We get so much of our traffic through those channels (only ~8-10% of visits start at the homepage) that I wanted to see if we could please a different/complementary audience with a more magazine-y, skimmable approach. We’ll see!

Actually, just for you (and others like you!), I just whipped up Nieman Lab Wire, a Times Wire-inspired reverse-chron page:

http://www.niemanlab.org/wire/

I do use RSS via Google reader, but the Nieman Wire is nice! Thanks!

Good eye! Old: http://www.niemanlab.org/layout/nieman_flag.gif New: http://www.niemanlab.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/Labby/resources/newfront-niemanlab-biglogo.png Not sure how that happened — I thought both were prepared the same way in PS, but I’ll check it out.

To note an offsite discussion of this topic:
http://metatalk.metafilter.com/20934/Accessibility-vs-access
wherein Josh Benton appears as “crabwalk”.