Site Changes Coming to blogTO

@jt

Nope. "Fun new stuff" does not include advert intrusion.

I hope the redesign includes having more than four stories on the front page and an end to "click to continue" just to see one more sentence or paragraph of the article that could just as easily have fit above the fold/before the jump.

Just to clarify Jerrold's statement - the "click to continue" (while it may generate more page views and therefore help pay writers) is primarily intended to enhance usability. We want to make the home page as easily scannable as possible and therefore try to limit each post to having 1-2 paragraphs showing on the home page.

Jerrold/Tim - That's a shame. An easily scannable page has a lot to scan through before you see the "next page" button at the bottom. 4 stories was a wee bit of exaggeration, but 7 is a lot closer to 4 than to Torontoist's 15+/page. It seems to me the longer a story stays on the front page the more views it will get and the easier it will be to revisit. If I have to hit "Next Page" three times to get to a story posted two days ago I'm probably not going to bother, and on the rare occasion I have it's usually to find there are no new comments (and I'll post a lot if the article has some traffic to it: http://torontoist.com/topusers.php ). But when I "click to continue" and there's only a sentence or two waiting for me it wastes my time and makes it obvious you put page views above content.