Beloved? The first time I used the ‘old’ pubmed 15 years ago I remember thinking it really, really sucked. The weird drop down export options, clunky irrelevant filters on the main page but having to click through multiple pages just to apply a reasonable filter, unsophisticated search etc. And it still objectively sucked 15 years later, there was just no other option. To me the new pubmed is obviously better. It pisses me off that some fool with low neuroplasticity gets attention by trashing it on twitter, and ‘Science’ writes a click baity article about it. Shameful behaviour if you ask me. If anyone on HN was involved with the redesign, thank you, you did a great job.
The previous design was not 15 years old [1]. If you want to push back 15 years you’d have been under the influence of the (Yahoo) Toolbar [2]. The toolbar then, the Google+ whitespace now, NLM is of the times but with a governmental handicap on timeliness.
I think they are, read some comments by a PubMed dev here on HN a while back, if I'm remembering correctly. It was not under such a clickbaity article though and the redesign was generally praised there.
