The drop in traffic was caused by a tech oversight on our behalf, from which we learned some serious lessons. The previous design used the "hashbang" for navigation which broke Google indexing as well as Facebook sharability. More info here: http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/05/has… Read more
Definitely not intentional but somewhat circumstantial - right now we're not only split between two designs but also two platforms. We're also trying to retire our old platform and technology. As a result, we don't have as many inter-site connections between other Gawker Media sites right now. We'll be improving this… Read more
Hey, sorry about that. Out of curiosity, what term would be clearer to you? We'll also be adding on an archives features so you could go to URLs like kotaku.com/archives/2012 or kotaku.com/archives/2012/04/16 and see all posts from each respective time period. I could see that being a helpful way to catch up. Read more