MRH staff notes - 4
MRH Gen2 feedback
Well MRH Gen2 is out, and we've received a lot of feedback about
the change. Some were not too pleased while many others are
delighted with the change. Here's a sampling of the comments
we've received:
"I do not think the changes are an improvement in the least. It's
too much of a dumbing down of the publication. Overall I've really
enjoyed MRH since it came out, but I'm very dubious of this new
direction."
"I'm not a huge fan of the change, but I'm not particularly bothered
by it, either."
"Given the trend is toward smart phones and tablet computers for
mobile computing and reading, I must commend your efforts to
provide MRH on a broad assortment of platforms. I have tried out
the new format on my Droid Razr. Laying on the sofa reading it
definitely beats sitting in front of my computer screen!"
"What else can I add? I'm already used to a 90° rotated wide
screen monitor attached to my PC, to properly read documents in
electronic format, now MRH can fit that orientation: I love it."
"I don't care for your Gen 2 layout but I can live with it."
"The new format is rubbish, short lines, not enough on a page, and
large fonts that make it look like a childs reader."
"I'm getting older every day. My vision is getting crappier every
day. Therefore I like the new larger font size."
"Thanks for Gen2 – makes reading on my Android smartphone a
lot easier!"
"This magazine is making me want a tablet sooner rather than
later because it's annoying propping a laptop up on my lap when
reading in bed."
Landscape and the future
We originally thought read-
ers would be fine with setting
the portrait Gen2 MRH to fac-
ing pages to duplicate most of
the Gen1 landscape look, but
we've received a number of
strong pleas to bring back the
landscape format.
So that's what we've done.
After investigating, we found
it's not that hard to go a bit
more middle-of-the-road
with Gen2 and provide a gut-
terless landscape version.
To allow readers to get the
best of both worlds, when
we publish a nice full spread
landscape image, we will also
publish a smaller half-spread
image with the caption,
somewhat like we do for the
magazine cover today.
This way those of you who
like the big screen-filling
landscape images will get
them, but now in all their
glory with no caption or
other magazine artifacts to
clutter up the image.
When talking
to hobby
vendors,
please
remember
to mention
MRH.
MRH-Feb 2013
