I am a subscriber despite what I perceive as a total lack of objectivity and balance in reporting politics. The site is fine but, I notice that since nonpaying readers are proscribed in an attempt to coerce payments to participa few are here now. Please notice that I am the first and probably the only commenter posting here this morning. This dearth of writers is making it less fun to provoke outrage with my "rants" exposing the Globe's leftist leaning staff. A prime example of the Globe's lack of news outreach has been the absence of any mention of the latest Democrat absurdity when a leading Obama strategist railed at Ann Romney. Where are the "reporters"? What happened to that idea that a newspaper should print all the news?

Totally agree with profox on the Comments sections. I don't know how the economics of the situation works out but The Globe should have charged a dollar a post to generate revenue and kept the paper free. Best digital news design? Really? I regulary go to news sites around the country/world to read the same story from different POV. The Globes is the worst! Maybe its my 6 year old PC but pages load slowly (too many pictures and adware programs loading in background I suspect)and it is impossible to scan articles before you decide to read them. Headlines should be followed by a first paragraph IMHO - which occurs sometimes on some versions of the screen but not on others. The e-paper version has print way too small to read. Reading the digital paper is like walking thigh high in mud. Maybe digital designers like the design apart from the utility of the underlying product.

Clearly whoever decided that the Boston Globe's website deserved a design award does not actually try to use the site on a regular basis. I think the Globe is a fine paper, but since the redesign of the website I spend considerably less time here and I am reading considerably less of the paper's reporting. I find the site ugly, difficult to navigate and difficult to read. Perhaps it makes more sense on an IPad, but I'm using a desktop with WindowsXP. The comments section is an unmitigated disaster. Every time I click like or dislike on a comment it causes the entire page to reformat and moves me back to the top of the article so that I then have to scroll all the way back down to my previous location on the page. If I then want to like a 2nd comment I have to go through the whole process again. Also, would it be so hard to put the number of comments next to the comments button so we can see if there are any comments to be read rather than making us waste time clicking and waiting for the new page to load only to find out there aren't any comments? It would also be nice if the type in the comments box was actually big enough for me to read while I'm writing. It's also a royal pain in the butt to have to sign in separately to both Boston.com and Bostonglobe.com. And then if I want to leave a comment on Boston.com I often have to sign in a third time. I'm a bit of a news junkie and internet addict. I read quite a few news sites. This is the most user unfriendly site that I read on a regular basis and, as I said, as a consequence of that I am reading it less and less.