I can't believe there's so much criticism of the appearance here...

The Linode Manager has not changed in appearance for the entire 6 years I've been a customer. It's needed a face-lift for a while now.

There's nothing wrong with the fonts at all. The important, dynamic information is much more visible now, and the smaller fonts taking up less space now is just the stuff that you'll look at the first few times you login just to remember where it is, then you'll completely ignore it just like how many people who have logged in recently still never actually noticed the new manager beta on the right of the login page. This is something you will completely forget you were complaining about within a few months of launching the new manager. There might still need to be a few small tweaks here and there, but this is far better than the old manager.

The best part of the new design that I like is that it's all finally been freed from the ridiculous section and table borders and the millions of table header gradients. It no longer feels constrained and cluttered.

Digging the disk image table and settings deeper below the dashboard was a good move. Who actually makes changes to their disk images so often that it needs to be on the front page there?

The revamped Console/Network pages into the Remote Access page is great! Much cleaner.

Also, I love the new Graphs page. Much more detailed for the graphs I care about the most. They might be the graphs on a sub-page in the Linode Manager, but they still are my main graphs I care about (my sub-graphs are managed on my linode with Munin).

And I can't really put my finger on exactly why this is, but the top level menus just flow better overall. I think it might have something to do with the main menu now being black, and the submenu being light. Probably because the main menu active tab color is now actually the main page background, and the submenu is only the fixed width.

As for complaints...

#31B96E really is a bad choice for the remaining colored headers. The teal color doesn't mesh with the Linode green colors we're used to, too much blue in there.

And this last point is more of a suggestion...

Now that the sidebar on the Dashboard is much shorter, and the bottom of the Job Queue section almost lines up perfectly with the bottom of the sidebar (assuming you have at least 4 actual jobs entered into your linode at some point in the past), I really think you should just make the graphs on the Dashboard clear the sidebar along with the job queue, and make them the same size as on the new Graphs page. The space below the sidebar now just seems wasted.

Currently, the DNS manager shows the "last generated" info on the front page and not only "last modified". It'd be nice to have that on the Beta manager as well.

Well, "last generated" is just last modified rounded up to nearest 1/4th of a hour plus tiny 0-3 minutes delay... and isn't really much useful.

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While that is true, it is still nice to see. Especially for people who don't know (or remember) that zones are only regenerated every 15 minutes.

Exactly my point. I can figure out myself when it got updated but I'd rather have Linode tell me.

The DNS Manager domain view page has a bug. The old version has trimmed down versions of very long records (showing '...' after the trimmed string)

This new beta shows the full record value and may break the layout if the record is very long (for example DKIM records)

In general, I have to say it's getting more and more usable.
Fonts look mostly good, the whole seems to be made wider than when I originally complained (even if it didn't change in reality), most of the functionality is there...
As of today, all I could complain about is the fact that job queue view still limited to most recent 4.
Besides that, there just two visual comments... first, the icon next to disk images looks kinda weird there, as no other thing in the manager has icons... second, the gravatars.
Not only they do feel unprofessional (IMO), they ARE kind of a privacy leak - gravatar.com now knows that someone with the email address <x> has a linode manager account. Bah, they even know what domains he opened in the dns manager, thanks to the referrer header. Please, consider removing those.

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