Critique of JS online

This week we had an assignment to critique the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal's website and give our honest opinions and thoughts on the site. Personally I thought the website isn't awful, it's easy to navigate through it while also containing many pictures and images. To my surprise, everyone else essentially hated the website, saying it was confusing, certain parts were unnecessary and the news wasn't the best. Apparently my opinion on websites are completely different compared to everyone else's. I feel one reason for this is I have been using this website since high school, I am used to the site and know how to navigate through it all. My local paper is much smaller than this paper, to me the sentinal is large and contains important news. A majority of my class is from Illinois and are used to the Chicago Tribune. That paper is clearly better and contains higher news stories, but I still was shocked to see so many people hating on jsonline. I feel a reason for that is because of prior locations. Once your used to something better, a downgrade is hard to look at as acceptable, but upgrades are amazing. To me that is interesting and I feel editing the tribune could be a surprise to those Illinois bound people as I was to my newspaper.