Whew– the huge occasion is lastly behind us. I’m talking, naturally, about the Ars Technica variation 9 redesign, which we presented last month in action to your study feedback and which we have actually repeated on thoroughly in the weeks given that. The website is now totally responsive and enhanced for mobile surfing, with a smooth makeover and fantastic user alternatives.

In action to your remarks, our determined tech and style group of Jason and Aurich have actually invested the last couple of weeks including a font style size selector, tweaking the default font style and heading design, and including the alternative for orange links. Plus, they presented a brand new, subscriber-only “wide mode” for Ars superfans who require 100+ character line lengths in their lives. Inadequate? Jason and Aurich likewise fine-tuned the general info density (specifically on mobile), included next/previous story buttons to posts, and made the nav bar “sticky” on mobile, all in action to your feedback. (Read more about our 2 post-launch rounds of updates here and here.)

If that’s still inadequate website goodness, Jason and Aurich are presently secured their lab, formulating a new “true light” style and huge enhancements to commenting and comment ballot.

While they’re brewing up those potions, I desired to take a minute to highlight our membership offering. At simply $25 a year, this is a good deal that does more than simply support our totally unionized personnel; it likewise uses genuine quality-of-life advantages to readers. Subs do not see any advertisements, nor are they served any trackers. They get access to the ultra-dense “Neutron Star” design and the bloggy “Ars Classic” view, together with the optional wide-text mode and the capability to filter subjects. (Plus full-text RSS feeds, PDF downloads, and some other little goodies.)