I remember I used to try to link to the .ca versions of Kotaku back in the day, as well, since they still used the old, better format on that, but then all of their sites adopted that same, terrible, Gawker-style shit. So yeah, that's at least part of the reason why I also stopped visiting Kotaku, myself. Mainly, though, it was because Kotaku started getting up to Destructoid levels of asininity that I stopped visiting it.