I noticed today NPR's new look. Starting with the home page:
New NPR site design. Less busy than before. A bit more austere, but I like it. Individual program pages got similar treatment, for example here is Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me :
This I'm not so crazy about. The site has lost its former personality. Unfortunately, th Wayback machine doesn't cache it, nor does Google, so I can't show what it used to look like. If I find an old cache I'll post it, or if a reader does, I'll offer my thanks.
Another negative about the re-design is that programs have lost the old, convenient "previous show" and "next show" links. To be fair, these are not completely lost, but are now buried in the archives section. The biggest problem, though, is that audio links for past shows appear to be broken. I haven't found one that works. I get a flash error "The main audio for story (some-huge-number) could not be found". Oh am I ever looking forward to HTML5 embedded media over the Flash crap.