I was too busy getting ready to jet off to the Land of Lincoln for Thanksgiving feasting all last week to notice, but Pegasus News executed its (much-anticipated?) relaunch just before I left town.
I like the new look. It’s way easier on the eyes. I imagine there are all manner of kinks to be worked out still. And while I like a lot of what’s there when I click on the “Outbursts” tab, I’m exhausted on behalf of Pegasus founder Mike Orren when I see that he’s generating nearly all of the Outbursts or Tweets or whatever it is that we should call them.
In other news I missed because I wasn’t checking in with Pegasus regularly, they ditched the idea (much criticized by FrontBurnervians, and me) of changing the name to Wired Local.
I’m going to pull a Stephen Colbert on this and say: “We Did It!” We made it happen, FrontBurner Nation. We saved Pegasus News from itself, and that horrid, generic name. You’re welcome, America.
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I disagree. The new design looks like one of Mike Orren’s shirts. It makes my head hurt.
To be fair, there are some parts of the site that are an improvement. But overall, I am confused. Navigation is unclear and stuff seems to inserted all over the place in random fashion. There is no cohesion and as a user I find it frustrating. I see lots of bugs too, and I get the sense the whole thing was very rushed. Some sections don’t make sense at all to me.
More troublesome, they seem to be moving away from the cool stuff that made them unique and more towards a purely entertainment-based site. That puts them squarely in competition with the GuideLive, Observer and every other entertainment site in town. What happened to the customized, neighborhood news idea?
I give them 12 more months. Check out how few different ads are running. How are they making money?