Agreed. The new site is clunky and counterintuitive. Why on earth would I want to click "next post" when before I could just scroll through the site? Also, the sidebar keeps freezing and getting blocked out by an ad (or something--now it's just dead white space). There's nothing wrong with change provided it's an improvement, which does not seem to be the case here. I hope this doesn't spread to the other Gawker sites.
@Taigan: Ditto for the NYC area: the NY Public Library [[www.nypl.org] Brooklyn Public Library [http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org]; and Queens Library [[www.queenslibrary.org] are all facing serious budget cuts.