a complement for such a great design

I'm neither a facebooker nor an ituner, so if that is their bent, I'm afraid I've been left behind.

I think we have an enormous amount of input into the website as users, and that Food52 has been equally responsive in taking our comments and requests into consideration. That's what makes it such a great community. You sure don't get to have these kind of conversations with the folk at Facebook or iTunes! That said, they have a business to run and like parents, need to make the overall decisions that guide the future development and growth of their business in an ever changing and increasingly competitive marketplace for web start ups. The fact that they continue to grow, expand, add features, and draw in a larger and larger audience speaks well to their leadership in an arena where most of these ventures fail in under two years. They've made a name for themselves, have generated well earned "buzz", and I'm happily drinking their Kool Aid.

I'm not sure I agree. I've been involved in beta testing in the past, albeit in a financial realm, but the point was to work out bugs sooner rather than later and to invite buy-in rather than chaos and the angst of change into unfamiliar realms. I am guessing that the readership today is significantly larger than that of two years ago, such that the familiarity with the former food52 was also significantly greater. Therefore, the potential for greater disorientation by the sudden new FOOD52 may have been also significantly greater.

I too, think the new features, layout and content FAR outweigh the bugs. I thought it was exceptionally well handled for a "soft launch", and an afternoon of sluggish response and a few bugs is nothing compared to the final product. Also, I'm not a developer, but I'm guessing this new template is much easier to manipulate and add features to, since I got a sneak preview of the way you all were building it over the last few weeks. ;-) And you thought those Twitter ipsum lorem test posts weren't public. Tee hee.

PS I still reach for my tongs in the old tong/ new hand towel drawer and I reorganized my kitchen drawers six months ago.

Wasn't this the previous situation to find Home? Only recently did I find the little 'home' icon. Was it there all along?
I'm sorry to see the old logo go -- it was really unique and said who you are.

Syronai, you're now officially my new favorite Food52 user. :-)

I'd just like to weigh in that I love the new look. Sure, there are bugs. But it's like a reorganized kitchen and now I see and use all the cool stuff I always had, but never remembered to use before! Great job, all you hard-working web developer people.

Peter I wasn't trying to be a smart ass and sorry if that came across that way. I really like that you click on the food52 banner and it takes you to food52, it is smart.

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Thirschfeld, indeed -- we need a "Home" link up top there just to the left of the word "Recipes". I'll add it to the list!