The On1on

Hmm I was confused when I saw actual articles from The Onion on there, but that's because the top navigation links point to pages on The Onion. Aside from that minor confusion,…

Excellent! This reminds me of "Daily Rotten News".

haha yes

The Science/Tech header tab is great.

Um, are you seriously hotlinking to resources hosted by theonion.com? That is a terrible, terrible idea. ``` <link rel="stylesheet"…

Because if the onion goes down, so does your site. Because the onion can take the link down just to mess with you. Because the onion gets owned, or feels like it, they can have…

Besides what everyone else said, hotlinking other people's resources has been considered bad form since the early days of the Web, and its legality is questionable as well.

Hi. I actually work as a developer at The Onion. Given the conversation we just had, I'd say that it seems like you're not in "our circles". Honestly, I think this idea is pretty…

Regarding fonts: it's not the Onion you really have to worry about, but the actual owner of the fonts. That's who is going to come after you for copyright infringement.

I get that this was rushed, etc. But it's not like you did a soft launch to test this thing out, or that you're on some kind of deadline here. You built the site lazily and…

I'm not sure the I'd go with the name "The On1on". It seems too close to trademark infringement. An alternative off the top of my head is "The Un-ion" (as in "un-" + "Onion") but…

I'm not ok with this. Watch the trademark. I'm not even talking about litigation -- just not ok with people willing to trade on another company's name.

Hopefully theonion appreciates the homage, this is fairly textbook trademark infringement and they can take this domain away.

You should fix the top links (Video, Politics, Sports, Business, Science, Tech, Entertainment, and Breaking) so that they don't take you to the real Onion.

Why do the links take me to the actual onion site? Let's say I visit your site. Then I am viewing real news that looks fake (i.e. just poor and sensationalist journalism). But…

I'm not sure the I'd go with the name "The On1on". It seems too close to trademark infringement. An alternative off the top of my head is "The Un-ion" (as in "un-" + "Onion") but…

A visual nottheonion is a great idea. I suggest changing the name to something that's not going to violate their trademark. Also, a quick way to avoid hot-linking the images is…

Well, the big concern is that those look like cache files, which means they could just go away at any second. In the rush to launch I didn't care, but I should be more careful /…

For the record this was an oversight in the rush to get this out ASAP -- I'm correcting it now (thanks for calling it out!)

You should fix the top links (Video, Politics, Sports, Business, Science, Tech, Entertainment, and Breaking) so that they don't take you to the real Onion.

The Video, Politics, Sports, Business and Entertainment links point to theonion.com. I suggest that you change this. An Onion dev already posted that he had considered screwing…

You may want to rid of those sharing links: http://i.imgur.com/3EYKseY.jpg Generally those are more harm than they're worth, as nobody uses them and they annoy the user…

Noted, and removed in the next push.

Why is it a terrible idea?

I was going to suggest /r/nottheonion but it seems OP is already using it. Not bad though, I kinda like it. EDIT: oops, you're OP. Ever thought of suggesting this CSS to reddit?

Excellent! This reminds me of "Daily Rotten News".

This site reminds me of "News of the Weird": http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html

Cool. It's like http://www.fark.com/ but with a more attractive layout.