Hello Fellow Claycordians,
We wanted to wish you a warm welcome to the updated website. We hope you like it, and if you don’t, we hope you give it a chance.
Please be patient while we iron out a few kinks, and get used to our new home. There will be some minor changes, so please keep an eye out for those throughout the next few days/weeks.
Local news will be at the top, while Contra Costa & East Bay News will be down the page a bit. The daily Water Cooler question will also have its own section, as will the Claycord Online Museum.
To access the Talk About Politics and Talk About Whatever posts, please visit the top navigation bar, click “other,” then hit “politics” or “whatever.”
Please feel free to give us feedback, both negative and positive. Like we said, things will probably change a bit based upon your feedback.
Also – feel free to sign-up for our NEW daily newsletter. We’ll never sell or share your email address.
Thank you for reading, talk to you soon!
Mayor & the Claycord Staff
Woo Hoo! I’m in!
Cowellian really was first!! 🙂
Hi Everyone – Please be patient, some features, including commenting might be a little “off” throughout the day. Thanks for your patience!!
I notice that Claycord now has an https address. That is a welcome change.
I will give the new format a chance; however, at first glance and use I find it contains too much information and its it too cluttered. The benefit of the old “Claycord.com” was the simplicity of use. Sometimes too much of a good thing is bad. However, I will give the new format a chance.
The new website looks fresh but honestly I think off first glance I prefer the old website because of how simple it was and everything was just there for you, you could just type in Claycord.com and find everything in front of you. This new web has different tabs and stuff, cool but sometimes simple is better.
Nice.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone. We’ll work on making it a little simpler. One of the reasons we didn’t change it much over the years is because we also don’t like change, lol. It worked. We’ll do our best to make this work well, too!
Thanks again!
Just a few suggestions:
1) Please remove the “recent comments” on the left – we don’t know which comments relate to which article
2) Comments should be right below the article – not below “You May Also Like”
3) Advertising should not be at the top – maybe replace the comments on the left with advertising
4) I feel there should be a solid vertical line on each side of the articles – which separates the articles from advertising.
5) Again, just too much information and too much clutter – I also do not like change. KGO 810 just recently went off the air in their current format – not that I liked the radio hosts – but I did listen to get a different view point – now I don’t know which station to listen to. Too many news changes in the past month for me to handle – lol
We just made the “local news” section more user friendly, and easier on the eyes. We’ll also include the daily Water Cooler and the Talk About Whatever and Talk About Politics in the “local news” section so they show up in the main part everyday, but you can also find them in the other areas when they disappear from the “local news” section due to more stories. (hopefully that made sense).
Thanks for your suggestions! Keep them coming.
I am here on this historic day.
Hi everyone. Finding my way around. 👏. Emojis!
Sorry but this is not working.
Go back with the improvements you need & want but get rid of this endless clutter. I for one, would not return to this.
Said out of love brau ….
Im sayin’
Mike is right
Oops my comment below was meant for here
Like anything else that’s new, I’ll get used to it.
I did not even have to change my short cut. Nice and easy.
Very Impressive…
Just logged on – the new site looks great, Mr. Mayor!
Thanks again to all of you for the feedback, both negative and positive.
We’re working on making the ads a little easier on the eyes, and only have 6 stories listed on the main page under “Contra Costa & East Bay News” so it’s not so cluttered. We also made the “Local News” section a list instead of a box, which is more like the old site.
On ‘Recent Comments’ consider including with comment, where it was posted to. (politics, whatever, etc. If it’s already in work, great.
There you are. I tried to find you earlier but only got a spinning icon. This layout looks interesting but I haven’t check it all out yet. So glad you didn’t disappear.
Mayor
Can you please add a picture to below the heading/title? Maybe that would work to not make it look so cluttered, it could also make it easier to remember when looking back for a specific section/news story. I like the thumbs up/downs button.
When my child was learning to drive one of the things I figured out is that a large part of the process is training the brain to filter out clutter. For example, experienced drivers know there’s a stop sign ahead even though we may not see the actual sign. The brain learns how to ignore the vegetation, parked cars, etc. and to pick up on those details that are important to driving safely on roads. The new Claycord is like that. There’s a lot of clutter. Hopefully, our brains will soon filter it out.
+1 regarding clutter.
Please replace the pictures with the headline. Don’t just state “(Picture)” in the headline.
Joe
Some people like change, others don’t. At least Claycord.com let the readers know this was coming. Most news sites just change and let the chips fall where they may. Claycord.com takes the readers into consideration, and that’s a good thing.
Thanks, Kentucky Derby!
Thanks to everyone else as well.
In regards to the “recent comments” on the sidebar. We were able to include what post they’re from on the post page, but on the main page, it’s a little trickier. We’re working on it.
Also, we’re going to break up the stories a little bit, so it’s easier on the eyes read.
It’s a work in progress.
Mr. Mayor,
I enjoyed the return of “Talk About Local Politics” last Friday, it would be much appreciated if you would consider bringing it back again this week. I know that you removed “Talk About Local Politics” at the end of last year due to quite a few weeks of nobody making comments, but because “Talk About Whatever” and “Talk About Politics” are now under “Other” and no longer in the main feed I hope you will consider bringing back “Talk About Local Politics” full time, when you have more time and worked out the bugs in the new site. Thank you.
The only negative I’ve encountered with the updated site is that it seems to have an awful amount of red on the home page.
Love this new format as it shows many more topics to comment about.
Thanks !!
I like the effort to keep it fresh and the navigation across the top is nice. I see the comments are being associated to the article. Thanks!
I liked the photos that accompanied the articles. Very simple platform. This new one looks less local, less neighborly. It looks like the big news. The reason we come to Claycord is to get away from big news outlets and get our local neighborhood feel. I like how you said local news will be at the top, that at least is good. But not a super fan of the new layout looking ABC7 News page….
It’s taking a little while to get used to the new format.
I chalk that up to my old age and the comfort of the previous version.
I do like this new format.
The more you use it, the more comfortable it becomes.
I like it
Where’s the claycord museum?
Hey ~ This looks great!
O.K., but let’s see if my post worked …. am I here?
Going to take me a bit to get use to using.
You are here Roz…I just opened it and yes, it’s going to take me a bit getting used too as well. Just so you know Sis I will be back at it tomorrow after all. I will be going there anyway. Just received my bill yesterday. I’ll be sure to ask Lindsay if you had left something for me. P.S. Wife just came down with it now. 🙁
Oh Great!
It’s just a little something for You & Missy 🙂
Old site better. The site has “sections” or “dividers” that made it look neater. It was always just aesthetically nicer and looked less like a text document. It had a cozy “old internet” vibe. This just looks modern yet amateurish.
Rollback.
Also having upvotes and downvotes, IDK. It’s bad. Allows for manufactured consent.
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The difference in font size should be reduced between a comment and its replies.
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