After reading the comments, and my own feelings, I feel that the problem is NOT the new site, but rather the fact that what people liked about the old has gone. It feels like the baby has been thrown out with the bathwater. I am a technophile, yet I have a problem. Why not ENHANCE the user experience, rather than this REPLACEMENT of the user experience. We all seem to be required to like all the new things, and forget about the old. Please, evolution rather than revolution.
Please return the calendar and the simple format, keep the new and let the audience go with what they like.
I really feel as though a developer or two of yours has joined this little debate! There are some comments that really feel like those that some of my staff might have posted if they saw such an avalanche of negative response to what they had just delivered! ;-)
I don't like the way the Daily Dilberts are shown now.
I collect them, and saving them now has become far more labourous.
Why put them in this flash-container?
Just show them as previous.
The colour is a good idea though.
JUST LOSE THE FLASH
I agree that the new site is just absolutely horrible. Too much flash. It takes too long to load. It is way too complicated of a site for a comic site. You know most of your users just like to enjoy reading Dilbert strip once a day (morning for me). The new site design gets in the way of enjoying the content.
Please bring back the old design - just changed the black & white strip to the color strip and it would be a huge step-up from the current design as well as the old design.