You may have noticed a slight change to the way DCist looks today. Following the lead of our sister site in New York, we’ve now transitioned the default front page of the site to the “pretty” view. We’ve slightly refined the view since it launched earlier this year, increasing the size of the lead story images, adding more posts and generally making it more elegant and readable.

Here’s the really important part: the blog view continues to be accessible, and always will be. If you click over there, we’ll record a cookie, and you won’t see “pretty” again until that cookie expires in a couple of months.

Please feel free to offer feedback, suggestions and complaints in the comments on this post, or by emailing me. Thanks!