Boston.com Tickles Our Brains, Not in a Good Way

Yesterday while perusing a few Globe articles on Boston.com, this Bostonist's eyes started to go a little loopy. It seemed as if ants were crawling across the Boston.com web page.

Bostonist quickly noticed that the dotted lines separating the elements on Boston.com's recently redesigned webpages create the illusion that the lines are moving, especially when they are stacked one on top of the other as seen above. In general, the Boston.com redesign is an improvement, and the updated layout makes the pages easy to read, but the dotted-line overkill is a setback to the improvements.

After a while, the dotted lines go all Brownian motion on you. Is this a silly complaint, or does Boston.com need to dial back this dotted line thing a little?

Screengrab from Boston.com.