Boingboing redesigned: nicely minimalist, despite all the ads

[kf]

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/welcome-to-the-new-b.html

[kf]

Perhaps most interestingly, they enabled comments with the help of a (full-time?) community manager to keep things from turning into the Techcrunch comments.

It makes me wonder how much money they make. Anyone have a ballpark figure?

[Kelevra]

"All the ads?" The ad count is way, way down. Where they used to have a dozen mini-banners, they've now got one big square box.

[Kelevra → Kelevra]

Here, look how many ads there were just a few days ago:

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5483/boingboingoldschooll...

[Alex3917]

That's the first thing I noticed also. It looks much less busy despite having significantly more ad space.