USA Today has an Amazing New Website (beta.usatoday.com)

Their article preloading is very quick.

I like the design.

A low bandwidth version would be useful though.

It's like an over-designed tumblr theme. My eyes don't know where to go, it feels claustrophobic when a story is open, the white headline is almost invisible against the main photo, navigation is all over the show, and I'm distracted by the secondary stories' photos so much so I don't read the headline and just keep scrolling.

It's beautiful, but functionally it really needs simplifying.

Shame about the newspaper.

Slow like crazy but a forward step if they can address the site performance.

How do they make the page animations transition across separate requests to the server?