what is wrong with the forums?

My problem is that most of the time, the top menu bar (tg FORUMZ FAQ SEARCH PM etc) doesn't render properly on my Win XP/Firefox 2.0.0.3), appearing only as a single *column* of text along the left border. Very annoying!
Strangely enough, it renders fine in this Forum!

A couple of relevant threads in other forums (linked here):

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/com [...] 20054.html

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/com [...] 20053.html

980 / .22 = 4455

What kind of monitor are you using? I'm looking for an upgrade...

Yeah, but just think about how much they could make on ads. Why a single link is worth $544 /month!

Also, BBCode (for bold at least) doesnt work in my sig properly. All the links in my sig should be bold.

Yes but you can [list] the things that do...

web site work ok for users who still use 1024x768 i guess

wooooord!

Holy fsck. All I can say is this is the straw that breaks this camel's back. Absolutely everything that made Tom's Hardware "Tom's Hardware" has been changed.

The articles suck, The site layout changed to what looks like a grade 5 computer science project, there isn't an area that you can go to without 1/3 of your screen being filled with irrelevent advertising, and now the forums are fscked.

Nice way to torpedo what was once the best hardware enthusiast site on the net.

Good luck pandering to the script kiddies.

We are working on it. Stick with it and keep posting.

Ayeee I'm so confused... I'm sure things will work out better in a bit, but right now all I can say is

I hate these new forums, I can't find anything. I thought the old layout was bad enough for navigating, now it it much worse. I cannot find most of my old posts, the search function only finds a few of them, and it does not display them in the correct order, I specified order by date, but instead I get posts I authored before threads I participated in even though they are much older. I also cannot find out how to manage my avatar or sig.

EDIT: apparantly my avatar is still OK, however I've lost my sig, now I gotta figure that out again (it was complicated).

EDIT2: Ok now I have my signature displayed, but not correctly. Do I have to check the add signature box everytime I post? That would be annoying.

The new look is terrible, I hate the colours, please add an ability to use themes so I can make it look normal without the wacky colours. As others have said it's also way to skinny, why force a particular width?

Overall I am unimpressed, this is a step backwards, it looks like another one of those amateur PHPbb sites, only less functional.

Have to agree, the forums are much, much harder to navigate now. I can barely find anything, let alone the threads I was keeping track of. And what's with the forum categories now? I'm all for integrating all of the forums so we can search and see everything at once, but all of the components in "CPUs & Components" would make more sense if they were their own categories... A CPU is a component too.

And I miss how I could do the [quote="NAME"]blah[/quote] thing. I can understand how people abused it, but its freaking hard to keep track of things now, almost making quotes useless.

Two things aren't working for me.

1) The back button. I have to press back, then stop the loading and refresh. This, on top of the general slowness I'm getting, is pretty frustrating.

2) User names get a weird cut after 10 characters. For example, what should be "lordaardvark2" is "lordaardva rk2" on my screen.

Whatever, I guess I'll just keep going to all the other forums around.

Ding. Many of the pictures that represent functions MAKE NO SENSE. An envelope with an arrow pointing to it means quote? I liked the old Quote buble.

its pain for my eyes.... so white....and the fonts so big and agly...
the old fonts where so much better as where the colors

Ya but I miss the old categories. I really feel CPU should be its own category since a good chunk of the discussions are in there. I'm just afraid that alot of non-CPU threads will end up in the CPU forum because its not blatantly obvious that there are forums for the other components. Shrug, I just have to get used to it.

Anyone try the search function? [Magnifying glass, top of page] All I get is a blank gray page.

The whole thing violates the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" principle. The learning curve is too much work for this old f*rt. I'm done with this forum. Time to find greener pastures. "Gonna lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff..."

Murph, you're right.

New owners, new site, new direction, new problems, new n00bie visitors. Us old farts that helped BUILD this site and keep it popular and relevant are feeling the squeeze.

Comptia, you are a class act, but this place has become otherwise. It's sad really.

Complaining about the tech problems with these forums is missing the point entirely. This PLACE isn't what it was....not the forums. It's gone, a shadow of its former self. The locked topics, the mass bans, the incorrigible attitude of many mods, etc........no warnings here of what was to come, no "hey guys, change is on the horizon, keep your chin up!!", NOTHING. Like a thief in the night, we woke up and find this place has GONE. Forums, relativity, enthusiast base.........it's all disappeared. What a shame.


I think greener pastures it is..........

Hi,

Do you know you can change icons ?

Go to Profile, Forum parameters and choose one in "icon set" (IMHO, "Silk" is better).

Also, you can change the icons' position : "Customize the toolbar" http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] inc&page=7

And don't forget to look help page http://www.mesdiscussions.net/doc/english/user/html/

Why the ^&%$ does my PM Inbox show stuff as unread that I SENT?!?! Where is the simple Inbox/Sent/Saved??

What is going ON here????????

Does anyone have a clue how to make this $hi!t work????

[Unread] means the message you've sent has not yet been read by your interlocutor

And there's no need for Inbox/Sent/Saved section since the PM are now handled exactly the same way normal topics.

You don't prefer when a PM works like a normal topic ?

I feel it's better, easy, no ?

Actually, I don't prefer that a message acts like a post. Messages/email/notes are not forums posts. An apple is not an orange, even though they are both fruit.

MM, see ya on the dark side.