Reply To: Hey you guys! Feedback on Bow 2.0 in general

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Assuming the site is using the idea of keeping data and layout separate (using style sheets to control the layout), is it possible to allow users to choose different layouts for their homepage?

The main issue I’m having with 2.0 at the moment is that the homepage is so much harder to scan through. With the previous site, I used to be able to just visit the homepage every few days and scroll down until I saw an article that was there on my previous visit. Now I’m looking at the site and seeing what I presume are the last 3 main articles (What were the main articles previous to that? Shouldn’t there at very least be a more button?), the last 5 breaking news articles (Again, no obvious way to see further back than that. It was only by accident that I found the old style list still exists at the side of individual articles.)

The site’s definitely looking nicer, but at the moment it’s seeming that usability has been sacrificed instead. Even if it doesn’t look as nice, and is a non-default option I have to enable in my settings, it would be good to have a “usability mode”. Hell, even just having a “latest articles” page which had the layout of the old homepage would be great.