• Where can I send a proposal for the topless robot robot?

• uhm...I would love to remove that TR logo from that poster. Where is that from anyway?

• While I like the freshness of the new design, I gotta say it kinda looks waaaay to 'template blog' to me. This is probably due primarily to the kind of --how can I put it?-- "default font" look the text headers have, and also the sterile gray/white/faint blue color combination. ...Though I agree about the old site looking rather dated, I think the *idea* of some solid colors framing the whole thing the way the old site had gave it all a visual anchor, if you will, that prevented it from looking --at a glance-- like every other blog site out there. ...Might be something to look into for design tweaking.

• As long as the robots always have nipples, Topless Robot will always be my favorite blog.

• I like the layout quite a bit, but, like so many otheres here, a darker color scheme would loook better. Not everything has to look like an Apple store. I also have to say I prefer the original Topless Robot robot, she looked ready to party. This one, even if it's the same one you use for the t-shirts, looks like she's only ready for one thing: Destroying All Humans. Regardless, keep up the great work! Oh, and one more thing: The title of each blog post doesn't show up above their appropriate entry. In fact, on the main page, only one blog title is visible-- the latest-- and it's at the very bottom of the screen. Same with this entry: the title is at the very bottom (directly below the "Post" button of this comment, actually). Maybe it's just my office computer settings?

• As the designer of the original C3P-ette, I would like to say thanks to those of you who miss her. I preferred her sexier look over the current one who could maim you with a nipple.

• Congratulations on the new design. Very nice! But remember, it's all about the content. ;)

• Yeah. Hate to be negative but the color scheme is killing me. I do like the layout though, so good job.

• Agreed..... I like the overall style of the site much better, but I would prefer the black background with brighter text back.

• I like the robot and the new functionality, but here's yet another vote for the site being too bright. I make a point of disabling my ad blocking software on sites I read regularly. Unfortunately, I'm currently using a Stylish theme that happens to cut out the ads just because it doesn't burn my eyes. (And, apparently, because I'd rather form rants about alleged freeloading than write my own frelling style. Bad, self! Bad!)

• Is there any chance you can make the site use 100% of the user's window width? I've got huge borders on either side of the browser's window with nothing in them? What is it with web site designers and wanting to keep everything in a narrow strip down the middle? This resdesign would have been a perfect opportunity to get away from that. Otherwise, nice and clean, if a little too bright.

• Good Luck! This is awesome, I'd been a reader of this site for over a year. :D

• I know what you mean it seems like there is a bit to much white

• whats the picture attached to this article from? Surrogates? Sarah Conner Chronicles? Its bugging the hell outta me.

• Yeah, sans-serif is so much easier on the eyes. :/

• Mostly the new design seems fine (I never really like change but I get used to it). but there's something about the typeface that's bugging me. I don't think it's the font - more like all the white space, like the letters are farther apart than they need to be, and the lines look double-spaced. But whatever, change the look all you want, just don't change the content, because I love the site just as it is.

• Love the new layout keep it up :)

• I really do like the new design Rob, but like many others, the colors are too bright. Maybe switch them to darker colors or have different color schemes available when we get logins? (The logins are a great idea too, and it'd be cool if we could 'favorite' articles and such...)

• I actually like the sterile look of the white, but I agree that the header does look... unfinished? There isn't anything bringing the two pieces together. Not sure if its the lack of border to frame it in together, or the huge add that is currently covering part of the logo, but I find myself just glazing past the whole piece. I didn't mind the font spacing too much at first, it isn't bad in short comments, but once you hit paragraph status it does start to just look like a wall of letters with nothing breaking it up.

• Grats on the redesign! Looks great!

• Agreed. I like the upgrades but a bit too bright. BoSho7's colors are better.

• Man that's a bright light.

• Love the new look man. took me by surprise!

• I love the new design but i agree the white is a little much, the colours in ur pic nail it! Definately how it should look.

• Bring back the darkness!

• Shes not topless if shes got a logo on her tits. The c3po one got to bare it all, just cus this one looks like a real woman-one whos an amputee cyborg- doesnt mean she cant show what shes got

• The new name design is like leet speak, Ro3ot the be looks more like a 3. looks pretty good, I like the new topless robot girl, is she on the assembly line? reminds me of the "Im a robot I can put my arm back on, you cant so place safe" commercials haha

• It's also about 50px too wide to fit on a 1024x768 screen without a horiz scrollbar. Just an fyi for those web designers with giant widescreen monitors - web presentation is about the lowest common denominator. Web-safe fonts, colors, and sizes do not vary at your whim.

• It takes a special someone to make a leather jacket work with baby blue shorts and a floatation belt.

• <i>I'm snowblind, I can't see a thing I'm snowblind, I can't even sing I'm snowblind, need a familiar face I'm snowblind, think I'm lost in space.</a> - Ace Frehley It ain't growing on me. It's just too damn sterile, too damn bright.

• Dude. The site takes forever to load now.

• must the new site be "i just created this website" eyesore WHITE??? nothing like blinding eyestrain while im trying to read articles

• Wow! I Love the new design/layout. More power, man!

• Hell yeah!!! I LOVE IT! Welcome to the 21st century, dude!

• Loving the new digs man! It looks so shiny and neat.

• Classy new look. Love it.

• I like the new look! My layout eye has a problem with the text, though. The font is good, but the spacing is just too loose. The leading's fine, it's just the spacing between the characters. I know it sounds trivial, but it is affecting the look of the page. Even though you've designed for a lighter, more open look, you might want to scale it back a bit with the actual text.

• I think it should be a little less bright as well. It's a touch blinding. Definitely going to need a new banner because this one just isn't quite cutting it.

• Whoa, dude. There's already a Ted on this nerd site. I don't know if you know this, but I'm kind of a big deal.

• I go temporarily blind...so white...

• sorry! meant bosho7's pic. >_<

• yeah i like slopokes pic. thats how this site should look.

• You need an Adrienne Barbeau-bot with laser beam eyes and "D-Cups Full of Justice." http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3659/3419792166_71fd6aaa71.jpg

• Shiny and white. Rob, you've gone and apple'd the site haven't you? It's pretty, but it looks legit. The old one was grimier and the institutions like fff didn't seem so incongruous.

• WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS? No but really, I liked the old style... this is too... modern.

• I don't like change!!!!!!! Ahhh!!!

• You can do direct replies so we nerd warriors wont interrupt the flow of the other commentators.

• P l e a s e f i x t h e s p a c i n g . The contrast is a bit harsh on the eyes, too. A darker background or border color would be less migrane-inducing whilst viewing a large number of posts in popular threads.

• I like the new design, but it was a little too bright for me too... that's why I switched some colors around! Like so http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/2678/ex1x.png Other than the colors, I also wish the borders of the main stuff was a little wider. Other than that, great new layout!

• I also agree that the header needs a little work. I like the new logo but think it needs to be bigger. There's too much empty space between it and the robot and it doesn't connect. Not to mention they're both being squeezed out by a huge ad banner. I think what would overall help the design is a colored border around the edges. Everything being white makes it look too generic, too empty, in my opinion. I think it's great you've improved the functionality to resemble more modern sites and blogs, but I don't think you need to look just like every other site out there.

• I honestly liked the old one better. sorry just my 2 cents in.

• And, yeah, I know C-3PO is a Maria knockoff in the first place, but I suggest her due to that very similarity to what you had in the first place. In fact, fuck that. Bring back your original mascot!

• HATE the new look bigtime. The topless C-3P-ette was charming and had personality to burn, so why jettison her? If you must have a new robot, please go with something like a cheesecake version of Maria from METROPOLIS rather than a generic Shogun Warrior.

• umm, the "C-3P0 stripper bot" is the robot from Metropolis dude. That movie is only one of the greatest achievements in sci-fi filmaking, but hey, not like this is a geek website or anything, I guess you don't need to know that...

• screw that: where'd you get the fembot picture for this article? My life was meaningless before I found out about fembots :(

• Overall the new layout looks good, but it'll take some getting used to. I agree that it's quite bright though, maybe too much. Before you change anything else, please please fix the letter spacing. Right now, it's hard to read.

• Why is there still no forum/message board??

• It's garbage, I hate it, and it's terrible. It's too bright, too generic looking, the font text is bad and too spaced out making it difficult to read, images are annoying, and the logo is exceptionally lazy. This is just plain hideous graphic design from a website viewpoint, it's poorly made, generic, and tacky, half-assed and all over atrocious. You should be ashamed of yourself for even acting proud of this. It's godawful.

• Agreed!

• Yeesh, I was gonna say the pic in the article gave me the heebie-jeebies...

• GREAT new page look!! Great!! :)

• Whoa.

• I love the new layout Rob. Also looking forward to those profiles and whatnot. I shall enter this contest as well. heh I'm just giddy.

• Nice, I'm digging the new look and features. It's like going from Walkman to iPod.

• What? Where? Who? When? The hell!?!? That was a very unexpected change! TR 2.0 looks so new ,so white, so clean and shiny my eyes hurt! All this so sudden! I feel lost and old and scared! Moooooommmmyyyyyy! Congratulations Rob for the new look of Topless Robot. Salud to more nerd news, self loathing, snarky comments, bitchiness, witticisms, horrifing FFF, shameless nostalgia, WTFs, nerd riots and nerdgasms all in a gloriously bleached white background.

• This feels more spacious.

• I agree that it's too bright. Is it just me or I am already old that the brightness/contrast hurts my eyes. And the font too, a little bit hard to read. Anyway, great re-design

• Nice job. The site looks alot more stream lined. Whos responsable this

• &#64;Captain Spadge: Naw, you're wrong. It look way better than before.

• Seriously, why the freaking SPERM theme and purple failbot? It hurts my eyes!

• OOOOOOOOO shiny & pretty! :D

• Looks great! I come here everyday for my daily dose!

• It's..............beautiful. *_* Seriously a huge step from what it was before! Great job!

• Why a Marvel banner and not a Comics banner? Why Star Wars and not Science Fiction? Why Transformers and not Anime? Considering that you do post stuff on Superman and Batman, Star Trek and the Prisoner, GI Joe, etc. The headers seem limited.

• Damn. I used to be happy that my site (PopBunker.net) looked better than TR. Now I not only have 1/1500 the readers but the new look kicks ass. Congratulations I guess. :D

• For what it's worth, I hate the new layout. White one white? Let's get some color in here!

• Well its slicker but I liked the old design better simply cause it was darker. It felt more...homey. This one feels like a factory. If that makes any sense.

• Banner ad? *pets Firefox* "You're a good little web browser, aren't you?" "Yes you are! Yes you are!"

• Well holy skywalk, the site is so crispy! Love it, looks very clean.

• Yo, the top is hideous man. The rest is nice and clean though.

• Um no offense but the huge banner ad at the top of the page really overpowers the actual content. I realize you guys rely on ads to keep the site going but man, that one at the top is not only huge, it's the very first thing users see when visiting the site. Eyes are drawn to it instantly, which is great for the advertiser, but bad for the site itself. The message it sends to visitors is "Hi, get ready to be bombarded with ads!" The ad at the top of the page greatly overshadows the graphic with the name of the site and it basically overpowers any actual content you may offer. I'd strongly recommend finding a more subtle way to include your sponsored ads- what you have now sends a really negative message to your site visitors. You'll get more clicks on that ad, but the site itself will get far fewer impressions as a result. Just a thought.

• Whoa, I go away for a day and the human waste hits the rotating air moving device.... Actually the new layout looks good, but I'd agree it's a bit...white...

• I am a fan of the new design! It's so pretty. I am drawn like a moth to a flame. o.o <br>Although, for those who have been temporarily blinded, may I suggest using a different background color than white? Keep it bright, like another light color, just not white.

• I meant Terminator in a bra, or something. Weird that that was the first thing to pop into my head. Hehe?

• GAH. BRIGHT. I'll get used to it, I'm sure, but for now... GAH. BRIGHT.

• awesome! now this is change I can believe in :D although I am a tad disapointed in the lack of fur content. I was looking forward to the yiffing.

• Woah that threw me off, it's so bright! Now how am I supposed to read FFF in the dark when my monitor is this bright.

• And he knows how this Topless Robot? I do not understand that it generally is!

• My eyes! My eyes! My God, what have you done!!! It looks so clean, and sterile. I second the request for a dark background.

• Not really digging it. Preferred a darker skin, any preferences for that anywhere? guessing probably not...

• I love the change to white background it's easier to camouflage with the other windows at work hehehe

• Dr smashy you're rather have a man bot fire his moobies at you? What the fuck is wrong with you?

• Also, is "Insanity" only being seventh on the tag list shocking, or is it just me?

• We fear change. i want a dark background. How about some different themes or something?

• So does the new logo have to be a female robot? Is that a stupid question?

• As an LA Kings fan, I approve the new look.

• I ask you: what other nerd site has an entire header devoted to Rap? Besides maybe MC Chris' site.

• So...bright....but looks....pretty good!

• Oh, and I see I'll have to step up the HTML and exaggerate my carriage returns... Like switching to boxers, man.... Like switching to Care Bears boxers.

• Oh, sure. First it's a slick new site design, then we'll be barred from saying "fuck" in the comments, and then Rob will hire a staff of ex-IGN bloggers who moderate the comments with their own brand of vindictive, overpowered-nerd dickery, and then finally Topless Robot will be bought by Yahoo and turned into a corporate shill site full of fake comments from marketing bots while Rob sits in a palace with Drew Curtis, Harry Knowles, and Eric Bauman sipping champagne and laughing! Sure, the site looks good, and I'm happy for Rob, but I fear change when it comes to things on the Internet or my underwear drawer! Good luck, anyway. Thanks for making it look cool for us, Rob.

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