Whoever designs the NYT homepage is living in the print era. Visually, it has far too many items on one "page." Also, there is useless repetition of items on the homepage. And you can't really scroll the page (vertically or horizontally) in a logical way!
Simplifying need not be simplistic. Please, NYT, if you wish to survive as an island of literacy in an post-Gutenberg illiterate era, make your homepage more user friendly -- at least for those of us who enjoy (I refuse to use the Facebook-diluted word "like") reading -- granted online, with reluctance but acceptance -- a sadly disappearing pleasure, the reading to which I refer.
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P.S. Of course, the whole idea of getting readers to pay for access to the NYT is unrealistric, no way it will work in an era when successful onliners like the Huffington Post provide free content. I do "cheatingly" read the NYT articles, without paying, by copying their URL on Google news search, and the items become available, most of the time. Hope I don't get arrested by the NSA -- or exiled to Russia by NYT investors.
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