Welcome to the new Engadget!

Welcome to the new Engadget! It's taken us a ridiculously long time to get to this point (could everyone please stop having keynotes we have to liveblog?), but we're finally ready to introduce the latest version of Engadget. We haven't just refreshed the design, either, we've added a bunch of new features that should make Engadget a little more user-friendly. Oh, and to celebrate the occasion we're giving away tens of thousands of dollars of gear -- dozens of prizes -- for the next few weeks. Yeah, seriously, you're gonna want to watch out.

For now, click on for a rundown of all the new features, plus some info on how you can give us feedback about bugs and whatever else we can to make the site even better. We're still working out the bugs, so please be patient with us as we get Engadget solid again -- you guys are first adopters, you can handle it -- and keep in mind that we'll be rolling out more improvements over the coming weeks and months.

Oh, and if things aren't yet looking right, clear your cache! Thanks, and on with the show...

User moderated comments

You asked for 'em, you got 'em! You can now vote up or down on comments, and filter comments based on their rating -- as determined by the readers! Comment ratings occur in five steps:

• Highest ranked
  
• Highly ranked
  
• Neutral
• Low ranked
  
• Lowest ranked
  

One vote up or down does not equal one rating level, so voting a "neutral" comment up won't necessarily make it jump to "good." However, when enough users vote up or down, the comments will hop up or down a notch (or two). As we develop this system, you should eventually be able to see the standing votes for any given comment.

If you wish to report a comment, just hit the report button instead (the "!" all the way to the right). Please, only report spam or trolls, DO NOT use it to report comments you disagree with or dislike!

To reply to a comment, simply click the reply link and enter your comment. To view others' replies to your comment, click the replies link -- it will drop down your replies in-line. If you'd like to view the whole comment thread of replies, click "View Comment in Thread" to see the thread.

Also remember, the ratings of your comments do not have any effect on your standing as a commenter or user -- in other words, don't get bummed out if your comment is negatively rated! Try to be on-topic and civil, and your peers will thank you for it.

P.S. -Yes, we know you want filtering and/or sorting. We do to, and we're working on it. Like, right this second. Seriously.


Comment logins

We know you guys are mad sick of having to authenticate yourselves every single time you leave a comment. We hear ya. So now you only have to authenticate once, and you'll be sent a password to use for future comments on Engadget. Lose your password? No worries, just leave a comment as a new user, and your authentication email for that comment will include your password -- just like the first time.

Note: we don't have a way for you to change your password just yet, so make sure you click on remember me or have your browser save it for you. Sorry!


Dynamic / scalable content width

We know you guys love widescreen monitors every bit as much as we do, so why the hell waste all that space? Engadget now scales as about wide as your average widescreen laptop (1440 pixels), so you can have as much Engadget as you want.

But what good is all that width with itty bitty pictures? That's why we added scalable accompanying images, too. Our largest, highest resolution images will grow dynamically to fit your browser with little or no discernible loss in quality. Go ahead, do it -- watch the screencap above, or the logo image at the top of this post.

P.S. - If it doesn't actually look good, your browser might need updating. Try the latest version of Opera, Firefox, IE, or Safari!


Breaking news, features box, Engadget Mobile headlines

People are always asking us where they can find the breaking news on Engadget. Well, we've got a place for you to check now: the Breaking News box, where all the hottest news is going to go as soon as it hits the wires.

Right beneath it is the Featured Stories box, which will show off the latest reviews, hands-ons, columns, interviews, and other featured content from the Engadget staff and our amazing collection of writers, columnists, and industry insiders.

Oh, and over there on the right you'll see we've added Engadget Mobile headlines, so you can stay on top of what's going on over in the cellphone scene while browsing Engadget Classic.

We've also resurrected the suspiciously absent open-link-in-new-window icon for our read link! Sweet!


Tags and tag feeds, comment feeds, and category feeds

We're like, so Web 2.0. You may (or may not) have noticed, but we now have tags (and tag feeds) for our posts. So if you want to check out all the posts we've done on, say, Sony, just add Sony at the end of engadget.com/tag/ -- i.e. http://www.engadget.com/tag/sony/.

If you'd like to subscribe to the Sony tag feed and see all the Sony stories we're doing in your RSS aggregator, just add an rss.xml to the end of that URL -- i.e. http://www.engadget.com/tag/sony/rss.xml.

You can also subscribe to feeds for comments on individual posts now. Just add comments.xml to the end of the post (i.e. http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/welcome-to-the-new-engadget/comments.xml). Or you can go to the nifty little feed icon/link set up on every post.

We also made the category feeds a little more prominent. This should help you hone in on the stories you like, organized by category. Check 'em out here: http://www.engadget.com/feeds/


Multiple podcast feeds!

We told you guys over and over we were working on it, so here you go. You'll now be able to subscribe to the Engadget podcast in your choice of formats: MP3, OGG, and enhanced-AAC. We'll let you know how to get this rolling before our next show, so you can be sure to subscribe to the program in the format of your choosing!


We're all super excited about these new changes and features, but please remember: it's all in beta! If you're having any trouble, check out our bugs post, and see if there's a fix or some words on your issue in there.

Thanks for all your support everyone!
Peter, Ryan, and all the staff at Engadget.

P.S. - Mad shout outs to our whole tech team for making this happen. In no particular order, big ups to Brian Alvey, Mike Propst, Gavin Hall, Alex Rudloff, Celly, and the whole crew at AOL. You guys are the best -- now back to work!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2008 12:14PM]

test

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2008 2:45AM]

the site looks good, nice and fresh, and im sorry if soemone has already said this cos i havent read every post thoroughly, but i think that the date of each post is wrong, its sating september 18th 2006

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2008 2:48AM]

it seems as though its been fixed.... not entirely sure

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 7:56PM]

That was intresting

[UnnDunn Posted Sep 18th 2006 3:51AM]

The site literally changed right in front of my eyes!

Yay! I like the comment moderating feature and the comment login. Having to authenticate my email every single time was driving me batty.

All in all, good moves Engadget. :)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 3:45PM]

Way to go guys! I really like how everything looks! Very Web 2.0-ish!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 3:58AM]

This is insane, much like above, it changed all of a sudden.

I like it a lot.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:10AM]

I don't like it! I mean the layout is nice, but I can't croll with my mouse wheel anymore. The screen and it's content gets garbed. Oh Well...

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:07AM]

Cool stuff...thanks for all the hard work!

[ryan Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:01AM]

Thanks! We're looking forward to all the rad things we've got planned in the next couple of months, too. The fun doesn't stop here!

[ryan Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:02AM]

By the way, we may not have passwords in the emails right at this moment, our servers are going to be updating throughout the night. Stay tuned!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:05AM]

Sweet :D

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:06AM]

Very nice... It's about time to make good use of all that screen real estate.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:08AM]

Looks terrible and loads incredibly slllllooooowwwwlllyyyy in Firefox for Mac. Looks good in Safari though.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:12AM]

It looks great on my MacBook in both Safari and FireFox.

Are you using the latest version of FF?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:17AM]

Some very good advice: clear your cache! I visited just now and got a very ugly Engadget 1.0 / Engadget 2.0 mashup, but after clearing the cache it was lovely and pretty!

Hope that helps,
Conrad

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 10:20AM]

On Firefox you must enable it to display all images, if it is displaying them for the orriginating website only, it will look terrible.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:06AM]

I guess the other Weblogs associated blog links haven't been added back yet. So far so good.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:21AM]

Wowzer! Brilliant!

[peteremcc Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:09AM]

Awesome, thanks guys. Been waiting for this.
1 thing, the comments submission still doesn't seem to support CoComment.
Thanks anyway!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:09AM]

still a lot of wasted space, would be nice to scale to 1920x1200 resolutions.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 7:24AM]

you're fullscreening windows on a 24" display?? for shame, for shame...

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 12:41PM]

Actually, for some of us 1920x1200 is a 17" widescreen laptop... M570U, anyone? Just because Apple can't fit more than that into a 24" display doesn't mean the rest of us can't.

A little padding (say, 100 px on a side) is nice, but I agree it should scale a little bigger.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 7:57PM]

It would be nice if it scaled to 1680x1050 monitors too, but we can't have it all.

I think it looks great! Thanks for all your hard work.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:10AM]

I like it...Especially the password feature! The Engadget Logo on the frontpage surprised me, being 3:09 AM :-)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:12AM]

wow, I like the new layout alot keep up the good work.

[peteremcc Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:11AM]

Hmm... i didn't get a password in the message...

[peteremcc Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:13AM]

ah just saw your comments above guys... :)
thanks for the work.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:11AM]

nice :)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:12AM]

Nice! But don't you think when the window is maximised the column for the text is too long?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 6:28AM]

agreed. I think there should be an option for fixed or scalable width. And with the comment voting system it shud be ranked with numbers (eg 4+ or -8)

[peteremcc Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:16AM]

comments that are replys to something else also get added on the bottom of all the other comments too... oops.

2 comments for the price of 1!! :D

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:13AM]

Wow, I like what you guys have done, it's awesome.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:13AM]

Nice.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:17AM]

This is totally radically awesome!!! :D

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:15AM]

I like the new comments

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 11:09AM]

Yes, the comment voting is interesting. I wonder if this will catch on...

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:15AM]

I love the new look!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:15AM]

Initial response to what I see soi far is I like it.

Have not delved too deeply in to the feature, but so far I see no problems.

Good job!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 1:32PM]

Wow, great new layout!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:37AM]

Wow, what a difference. The biggest one for me was the widescreen, it looks schmick.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:17AM]

Excellent! You guys took your time though.

[ryan Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:37AM]

Yeah, we're doing the best we can though! It's not like we didn't want to do this over a year ago. Thanks!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:18AM]

Great look guys, not too different but still really refreshing. :)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:19AM]

I really like it!

Only think i can think that would make it easier to distinguish between the main content, breaking news and right column (because at the moment its a thin line that blends it for me) is to make a raised page type effect. Have a look at how http://www.smh.com.au/ does it on their front page.

Just a thought anyway, I'm sure people will disagree.

Keep going engadget!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:21AM]

Oooh I second the guy who mentioned this before.
I posted my previos comment as a New User and got the validation E-Mail but thus far have recieved no password..?

Am I doing something wrong?

[peteremcc Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:26AM]

nope, they've said they're having some problems at the moment and still working on it.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:26AM]

According to Ryan Block: "By the way, we may not have passwords in the emails right at this moment, our servers are going to be updating throughout the night. Stay tuned!"

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:26AM]

Same here, no password.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:23AM]

Are the other Weblogs Inc (Joystiq) going to adopt this system too, its amazing.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:27AM]

OMG! I was just here not too long ago with older interface!!!! BTW, this is much much much user-friendlier. Good job Engadget!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:28AM]

Engadget, 20 comments on every page DOES NOT cut it. I thought we've been there before.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:32AM]

It looks absolutely horrible on anything over 1024x768
Could you please, please, PLEASE make it non scaleable? Pretty please?
My screen resolution is 1280x1024 and the text column is just way too wide and it looks horrible, I mean unreadable horrible. Also it's slow.

Could you make it static width?
I have been reading engadget for a long time but this new design makes it unreadable and I might have to stop reading it, it's as horrible as IGN, maybe just a little bit worse.

Just make it static width, it stretches too wide on high resolutions!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:09AM]

Nice work! Now I just hope that the other weblogs follow atleast with the comments section improvement.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:32AM]

I love the way the site actually takes up the full width of my screen, that feature is made of pure awesome and win.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:38AM]

And I was about to sleep too. Time to go exploring!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:39AM]

Just a thought here, would there be a way to make it a user option for fixed width and scaled?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:40AM]

it's been like this awhile now... is there any actual reason to force the page to reload everytime i hit the back button to go back to the article listings? it's highly annoying and wastes time. if i wanted to refresh the page for new stories... newsflash. i'd do it myself.

so godawfully annoying it isn't even funny. it wasn't *always* like this either.

[ryan Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:45AM]

I'm not sure I follow -- if you use Opera, for example, it doesn't do that. If I'm not mistaken, it's not a function of a web site, it's a function of your browser.

Best, Ryan

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:40AM]

I really like it. Keep up the good work Engadget!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:43AM]

Wow, liking the new look. Not often do sites make use of my widescreen monitor.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:46AM]

Yay! Engadget 2.0 is here!.. I got to say I was wondering when you guys are gonna jump to 2.0 bandwagon!... nice... I like the "Breaking News" section... helps me get news faster :-p ... Thanks guys!! Keep going!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:56AM]

weird that it does it in both Safari and Firefox... and that Apple worked with the Firefox developers to make sure they would implement the same feature the exact same day as each other.

pretty sure : meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"

...causes it... but what do i know. it's probably the browser.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:58AM]

Good work so far. I hope readers can use the new features wisely.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:50AM]

Wide Screen! Thanks heaps guy's it's lookin great!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:55AM]

Congrats on the new site engine :)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:01AM]

just give a try

keep on good working guys

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:05AM]

im liking the look!!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:06AM]

how do i make my password??

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:10AM]

Great, now just give us a way to change the password and I might acctually comment a lot more often.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:11AM]

Excellent upgrade guys

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:15AM]

hmmm still very confused about the password stuff.... iv not been given one O.o

am i missing something??

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:16AM]

1st of all:nice photoshop clasic rounded corner outer glow grey design
2nd of all:the comments should be "order by desc", not ascendent, the last one first, please
3rd and last:take some of article width-form left(like 35px-45px) and add it into the breaking news column width. the thing i liked about the old site was readability(is that the word?).meaning the newspaper style.less width makes it fast reading.

but i like it, though. you gotta appreciate this cool kid maturing.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:17AM]

Wow what a change!. I really like it since it looks amazing in the Google Reader! Well done to all Engadgeteers (if such word exists..?)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:19AM]

Very nice change. Like it a lot. But content is king...

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:21AM]

Can you add a narrow view option so that the articles column appears narrower - about 400px. This is pretty much the optimum length for reading articles on a screen. There's a good example of this function on http://www.simplebits.com/

[Rossmas Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:53AM]

Awesome.

Love the changes to the comments.

Pages load up a bit more slowly, but I'm sure that will be ironed out soon enough

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:23AM]

I just can't believe this hasnt hit the front page of digg yet.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:24AM]

the new hottness is... well... hot.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:28AM]

hmm

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:35AM]

What's going on?? IS IT CHRISTMAS? Man I love the new look, at the scaling feature... all of it! So rarely do I like site redesigns!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:35AM]

Looks awesome! Any plans to spread the new features to the other Weblongs Inc. blogs?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:40AM]

Go engadget! Nice design. Didn't quite understand the image scaling though....

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:43AM]

Scaled images look fugly in Firefox. :( One of a handful of things I prefer about IE.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 5:48AM]

cool

wish the posters would read the article in full before posting questions like how comes I aint gotta password yet

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 10:25AM]

looks good on the website, not so good on the rss feed. Or at least not so good on the rss feed using Greatnews on windows as the rss reader.

anyway, good luck

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 6:00AM]

The new thread authentication stuff is a major step forward, nice :)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 6:03AM]

Late night roll-outs are always fun. Hope you guys actually get some sleep in the next few days.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 6:04AM]

Now that's some great work.

[noahsaiah Posted Sep 18th 2006 7:13AM]

great work, but could we have someway to switch back to the old version?

and please get rid of the 20 comments per page thing or link to a seperate page where all the comments aer on the one page.

really the new site looks great, keep up the good work.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 6:05AM]

Just testing the auto-logging feature.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 6:11AM]

Great Job!!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 6:12AM]

is anyone else having problems with the confirmation E-mail not getting through to hotmail?

iv had to change to another address as i am not receiving the comfermation e-mail in my hotmail account.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 6:13AM]

Check your bulk mail folder.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 6:13AM]

Wow! Luv it!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 6:14AM]

testing hotmail again....

[DaveBG Posted Sep 18th 2006 2:11PM]

Great!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 6:16AM]

Hopefully this will see an end (or at least some manageability) to the spam and troll posts. Hurrah.

Thanks, Engadget!

[BobbyDigital Posted Sep 18th 2006 6:17AM]

I love it.

[BobbyDigital Posted Sep 18th 2006 6:20AM]

I don't quite understand the password thing yet...