After months of teasing you like the little tease I am, welcome to our new and improved The Superficial, meticulously engineered for your clicking pleasure.
Right off the bat we have faster, prettier galleries that hopefully don’t deprive you of precious celebrity scheissefruit. (I’m pretty sure I used that right.) On top of that, Photo Boy and I have more versality to highlight saucy pics all throughout the posts like the little box in the corner linking to Rihanna’s Drunken Butt Fest.
Or this little feature linking to Rihanna’s Drunken Butt Fest Part 2:
You’ll also notice a sweet little carousel up top of each posts (only on the permalinks) highlighting the day’s hotness.
So in a way, we built you a high-speed drunken butt delivery device which is how I’ve always envisioned the site.
In the meantime, we’ll be adding all kinds of new features – Looking at you, commenting. – and tinkering under the hood, so bear with us if things go a little funky now and then.
Hopefully you guys like the new changes. I personally want to impregnate each and every one of these new widescreen banner pics that I’ll be ridiculously anal about choosing just like every banner pic since I mounted this Interweb steed so many moons ago.
Go easy on her,
- The Superficial
Looks good…where’s the Skarsgard goodness? Hurry, Fish!
…the gallery here was shit once it changed to the carousel gallery many months ago. Its even worse now.
going downhill…can’t wait until the site turns into an epic crapfest of javascript and flash with those single image per page galleries.
I’m moist with anticipation.
I’m a creep, and that crept me out.
I wish I had said that first, McFeely. :’o(
My sphincter has been puckering and unpuckering all day in anticipation.
I enjoy these new upgrades greatly.
BOOM! Looks great
It’s beautiful. I now feel even more justified in my (multiple) daily visits to this site!
Great jpb, youse guys!
There should be gallery scroll arrows on the first page of the article. As it is, and was, we have to open a pic in order to scroll through the pics.
The RSS links now go to the first photo page which practically solves that issue, although you have to click back to the story to see the main comments section.
Mmmmmm… upgrades :)))
Is veddy nize, yezz! Wider Superficial ftw.
Great job dudes :)
The ONLY thing that needed (and still needs changing) is the photo nav. Having to refresh the page for each photo really takes up a lot of time when I could be complaining on website comment sections.
This is intentional. Page hits and counts are important if you want to stay competitive on search engines and rankings. Especially in this line of business.
Get used to it.
Places like TMZ have ajax galleries why not here too? Most analytics are wise to this anyway, they won’t count the same visitor clicking through the photos.
Good job so far Fish!
agreed. the most annoying part about this site is the whole page needs to load when you change pictures. this upgrade is worthless.
I’m sure the new layout is UHMAAAYZZIIIING!!! but I’m quite concerned about how it looks on my end. I’m guessing if I give it a few minutes it shall be all primped and ready to go, unless Superficial Writer wants the right side stories to scream at me like that and interrupt what I’m reading. Hmm… maybe.
Thanks for not remembering to roll it out to your mobile viewers, jackasses.
Fish – can you please make it so that I can use the arrow buttons to move through the galleries rather than having to click each time? Thanks
Photo galleries would be so much easier in a pop up flash gallery!
Pop Up windows kill session tracking. Would mess up their reporting, no doubt.
It is getting better. I wish I could scroll through by swiping by using multi-touch, that would be cool.
Upgrades, and yet you couldn’t add a simple JS gallery so you don’t have to reload the page 8,000 times to view images? Mad sadness. Fire your web devs.
I second this.
Convince comScore to report ad impressions instead of page views and everyone would go ajax galleries.
Still need to update the photo viewer so when you put up a post with like 20+ photos, I don’t have to re-scroll through the thumbs on the bottom each time I load a single photo. The two elements should be separate and not force a new pageload each time you click a thumb.
it works for me. if you click on like thumbnail 4, the bottom thumbs under the big photos is on “4 of 10″ … more simply, whatever thumb you click on, that’s the most left thumb when it loads that photo.
boo. galleries still slow.
The only thing that would make this upgrade more epic would be if we could vote for each others’ comments.
Oh, and how many Facebook logins you get so far?
ME TOO WANTS LIKE BUTTON.
Voting up comments is in the works. Stay tuned.
I LIKE this.
The layout works for me.. good jobs.
Yes PLEASE, add a AJAX gallery viewer, reloading an entire page for a picture is REALLY REALLY FRUSTRATING!
Of all the pics to be the first ones shown under the new format, you had to give us ol’ gorilla forehead rihanna, the queen of dumbassery. A pox on you…
Where are the Next Story/Previous Story links? Gone?
and the cancel button on comment box. used them often :-)
also would have loved the next/prev buttons on the pics bar on the front page rather than having to click into photos first.. do appreciate the fixed and more obvious search window.
Re: cancel button — what were you using this for? If you want to reply elsewhere on the page, say you accidentally start replying to one comment, you can simply hit any of the other reply buttons to jump to that comment. Give me some more insight so we can best figure out how solve the functionality you’re aiming for.
Re: next/prev on the thumbnail strip on the front page — this would have rather large page performance implications. With the new upgrades, we now have a new concept operating behind the scenes, whereby the system detects the main tag featured in the gallery and pre-fetches every older gallery with the same tag and displays those thumbnails in the carousel beneath a photo in a gallery.
If we did this on the homepage, then we’d have to run this for 5 thumbnail strips — which makes the page heavy.
That being said, we like the idea so we’re investigating if we can clean up that pre-fetching to maybe just give you scrollable ability for the photos in that specific gallery. Good feedback, thanks. Stay tuned.
Finally, a celeb gossip website that utilizes the latest cum drop technology and other microsoft paint tools.
Thrilled to know that you and Photo Boy now have more versality to highlight saucy pics. When a saucy pic demands highlighting, versality can be the difference between success and suc.
Had to reset my password in order to share my stream of consciousness. Imagine my underwhelm-ment (I made that up and have no guilt because here at The Superficial we’re all about versality) when the page that greeted me was the standard WordPress Blah Blah landing page.
You’re welcome.
Hey, I’ve enjoyed the site for a long time, and I appreciate the efforts to make it better still. Carry on!
This new site is awesome. I can now masturbate to celeb tits AND write smarmy comments AT THE SAME TIME!!
Thank you Fish!
it’s more or less the same, mom.
Yes. I was expecting… more.
She is waiting for my man hose !!! I can tell !!
Good job.
I miss the links to other sites on the sidebar, the blog roll. I won’t be visiting the site nearly so often without the links portal (it’s the thing that makes the site worth visiting several times a day despite your relatively lower posting frequency). If the blog roll does not return in the next few days this site will leave my daily bookmarks and become a once-in-a-while place to visit.
so you’re saying the only reason you come to the site is to use the right side blog roll (circa 2001 internet coolness) to navigate your daily web browsing? that makes no sense.
that’s like saying you visit CNN.com for erectile dysfunction & skin-cream banner ads. “No thank you to the news, I want to click ads instead.”
you’re probably just a site-owner of one of the sites that used to be listed there and now you’re upset that Fish isn’t sending you traffic anymore.
@WTF
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cant we just have full-size images be the default after you click on the thumbnail? no one’s on 56k anymore, its a real hassle to have click to full view on every pic
ADAPT, people, adapt. It wasn’t all that long ago that someone’s describing a blog that occasionally shows “nekkid gurls’” private parts, with room for comments, etc. would have seemed like nothing more than a stoner’s head trip.
PS: I think Rihanna is smokin’ hot, and those of you who don’t like her, thank you for bringing the competitors’ list down just that much more…
How about a fucking Android app already?!?!
I’m just wondering, what happened to the related posts on each post? I was looking for something but I couldn’t remember which post it was in and it was easier with the related posts listed under. Otherwise, I like the new layout.
I wondered the same thing, but then I realized the tag page looks much nicer than before: http://www.thesuperficial.com/tag/rihanna
it’s easier to find old posts for sure. just click the tag name and the new page comes up. on the old tag page you had to scroll for days until you found the story you wanted. kudos, Fish.
Aha, thank you! That is just what I needed.
First gMail and now you Fish?? Say it ain’t say! Actually, this is pretty baller. Kudos on streamlining my time wasting experience!
Looks good, gents. Onward and upward.
Congrats guys! You´re still my No.1 entertainment site in the whole cyber universe. I feel like you´re the drunken uncomfortable uncle i never hard, and i really appreciate you being there whenever i feel like watching Lindsay Lohan throw her life away, it´s just priceless. Fish, Photo Boy you´re rockstars, keep up the good work!
Looks great!
Now please get rid of “The Crap We Missed”, it’s boring and a waste of space.
Looks good, Fish. I’d fuck it in the butt.
Missed opportunity, Fish.
http://www.lookpictures.net/photos/registered_photos/1541-im-your-upgrade-pictures.jpg
Still not loving how when you scroll through the pictures and click on one, it takes you back to the start of the pictures, so you have to scroll through again. I don’t look at all 40 pictures on a post, but I do like to check out a few choice ones.
Also I’m getting 2 new Google Reader entries for every one of your posts – one for the photos, and one for the story.
We’ve got a fix in for the double Google Reader / RSS bug that should be going out later today. Stay tuned.
Can you give me more explanation for your first issue? The thumbnail behavior is functioning as intended right now. It shouldn’t take you back to the “start of the pictures.”
For example, if I click on the 3rd thumbnail of a gallery in a post (or from the Home page), it will take me to photo #3 in the gallery and the thumbnail carousel beneath the photo adjusts to make #3 the far left thumbnail (allowing you to see #4, 5, 6, 7, etc).
If I click then to say, photo #7, the page refreshes to photo #7, and the thumbnail for #7 is now the first in the carousel, with 8, 9, 10, etc next up.
This is a new experience from the old site and should not be doing what you described in your comment.
I took a video of how I experience what I described above: http://screencast.com/t/yorjzxOgQAd2 – Let me know if something is different than this for you.
Sweet, both things are working as assumed! Maybe it was just my cache playing tricks on me. You guys are awesome! :D
She looks so trashy and dirty…
this new site design has me saying bye.
just too many click throughs deletes any interest.
I like that my sign-in info is already up. Let’s see if I come in purple or black.
Still black. Hmmm…
VICTORY!
Now, how’s about that edit button?
:) i’ve been reading this site for years. this post makes me happy
You have done a formidable job.