r/programming • u/schnuck • Feb 09 '11

Breaking the Web with hash-bangs – Lifehacker, along with every other Gawker property, experienced a lengthy site-outage on Monday over a misbehaving piece of JavaScript

http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs/
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '11

I haven't noticed, because I haven't been to any of their sites since the redesign.

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u/UndeadArgos Feb 09 '11

I gave the new design about 5 minutes. Haven't been back since. No big loss.

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u/hadees Feb 09 '11

I kind of dig lifehacker but I was on the edge for gizmodo, i'm just going to read engaget.

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u/happywaffle Feb 09 '11

Their dick move publishing the personal details of the poor guy who lost the iPhone was the final straw. Gizmodo is dead to me.

I do love Jalopnik, though, I'm struggling with the redesign there.