THG's new front page.

I'll post this on a couple of threads so people will notice it

That's what I hate about it too, but I'm surprised someone loved it, I thought it was too bland and medicre at best not including the forums banner, but since they forgoed that I rated it a hate it

Screw it, lets combine all our 1337 h4x0ring skilz and change to site ourselfs!

If i did it it would look more halo like then bungies homepage.

Halo 3, all the way. No question about it.

That's debateable, but back to the front page problem, if we can get a considerable amount of votes (100 at least), then we can send this in as further evidense of why we should change it, but according to someone, this all maybe because of scentia causing a forums war and people joining for one day just to mock us and then leaving, just spamming up the forums

tell me about it verndewd, I gotta go right now, but will be back in an hour and half to hammer more at this issue

I also voted 'Hated' because of the missing forum ticker. If they add that back, then my vote will be a neutral.

My sentiments pretty much exactly.

Guess they be bringing the rolling new posts back:


saintbabs wrote:
I hear the feedback.

1. The forums scroll bar or variation thereof will find its way back on to the front page.


WOOT!


saintbabs wrote:
3. The reason why we changed the old design was because so many people complained. So, we added more navigation, simplified the article layouts, improved the search etc. etc. etc. But, these are days of whine and hoses so, I guess we had it coming.





saintbabs wrote:
4. We are listening. What more can I say...

looks like me and apt managed to do some work, anyways the dude said that the scroll will find it's way back, and that the new layout is easier to maneuver around (which it might be, we haven't actually given it a try yet), but the thing I missed was all the pictures and such, they made the place look like somewhere fun, not some corporate money maker

Agreed, links to the VGA charts and stuff on the front page are very useful. I often tell people, when I'm asked about gfx cards, 'just go to THG and click on the VGA charts link'.

I do have to admit though, the page loads faster without all of the graphics. It just doesn't look as good. Now there is so much text and its hard to know where everything is. I guess I'll get used to it.

yeah, but their forums still lag, I don't know if it's the server, or too many images though

That's because some ass'es keep hacking some of the threads

I cant even figure out how to get around the new site, i mean, the forums link is still easy to find, so i can still get to the one part of this site that still has some sence, but until the main site is back to the way it was i think ill be hanging out at Xtremesystems more often.

I do feel kinda sorry for the person who designed the new layout though, i bet he was thinking "this new layout is going to completly revolutionize the site, there will be hoars of new traffic, THG will grow even larger then even before!" And this is the general forum response "The new site looks like crap, they've killed the forums, THG is going to die as well"

I want the scrolling forums listing back. BTW, the new front page blows. Too boring, bland, did I say boring. The old page had its issues but kinda liked the hodgepodge look.

I can try to get use to it but I don't feel like it. Tomshardware.com deleted, new bookmark, Tomshardware.co.uk added. Even the UK site was changed up a little but for the better.

All the new people that come to Tomshardware.com are probably not going to take time to get used to it and just bypass it for some other tech site.

Yeah, you have over 10,000 posts and ive never seen you before, and i pretty much live here.

At least the forum ticker is up now. The page just looks so boring, no color, no images. Way too much text. I guess I don't really spend that much time looking at the front page anyways, so as long as I can find the articles, news clips, and forum ticker, I'm ok.

As for not being able to reply to a topic, just reply to the OP, that's what I assumed everybody else did. You are basically responding to their original post, which is the thread.

And I am suprised that somebody could have 10000 posts and me not remember them. I have been reading the forum 5 days a week for probably a year and a half now and I don't remember you. Although, I do have a terrible memory for things like that so I guess if you haven't posted in a while...

ohh, well I didn't really notice you much anyway, but come join my phase change discussion
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/har [...] 66#1495766

I think you may find it interesting to get a phase change for only $200

well i liked the self scrolling news and the forum scroll. what i don't like is having to scroll a half a page just to see whats new. kisd (keep it simple dummies)

FFS look at the dates.

I hate to complain, as I am sure a lot of work went into it. And I love TomsHardware, but I really dont like the new layout. I dont mind change, but i find this new layout rather unintuitive. I am sure I will get used to it and then it will be fine, but I would rather see changes that simplify its use and this seems like a step in the wrong direction.

If you make no other changes, I would at least like to see a block similar to the news block for articles. A single unified list on the front page of the 20 most recent articles regardless of category. Features only covers the last three articles and I dont want to look at each category to try to see if there is a recent article in each of them I haven't read yet.

Just my $.02,
TechDicky

Agreed.

Wow...you're a total fcuk. Everything that's going on in the world and you're worried about a website catered mostly to kids that watch Star Trek in their parents basement and have never kissed a girl?*

You joined DAYS ago, yet you argue about a site with people that joined YEARS ago. Shut the fcuk up already.*

* for you Other regs, my apologies. Just finished No Country For Old Men and a 750ml of Jim Beam and have no patience for this drivel.

*logs off and resumes drinking*

Edit for drunken typos.