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should THG bring back a scrolling forum hot topic window?

94.6 %

53 votes

yes, i liked the old scrolling forum window. please bring it back.

5.4 %

3 votes

No I like the new format for hot topics

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we have all seen the new web site. looks clean and fresh but you cut out one of your best features...the forum's hot topic scrolling list and replaced it with a bland 5 topic window. i don't use the forums half as much now...everyone who thinks they should bring back the old scrolling list...please vote for it here and get THG to resurrect it.

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No, only because with my preferred browser FireFox I grew tired of "chasing" the links with me mouse and the new format alleviates the need for the link chase. Doesn't look as cool, but works better for mwa.

Message edited by halcyon on 05-08-2008 at 05:13:47 PM

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Reply to halcyon

i also vote no, although i wish they would put more time into fixing the polls for us in the UK.

Reply to Flakes

i actually enjoyed the firefox link chase. i could make the list scroll faster or slower

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Reply to jeremyrailton

I voted YES, and it won't show me the results either. For some time now, I can only Post with the Quick Reply box, as the Postreply icon says the thread does not exist. I posted 2 messages about this, but have not had any replies!!!

Reply to mike99

its not that hard, move your curser 1 in to the left or right, then you can chase them with ease.

All thread chasing aside, I too miss the scrolling ticker, gives you a good idea of whats hot on the forums.

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Reply to B-Unit

I vote yes as well. maybe I'm just nostalgic, but it gave a larger number of topics at any given time.

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Reply to Sailer

YES!!!! Bring back the hot topic scroll!!! And please ditch the miserable light blue text!!! What IDIOT came up with that? Did they try looking at it on a notebook LCD screen in bright ambient light? It may be artsy, but it is terrible. Pure form over function.

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Reply to altazi

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] ing-topics

Check out the post from Ombudsman.

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Reply to smartel7070

B-Unit wrote :

Ditto,,And Furthermore research around the web has shown that white web pages consume more electricty than not,plus a little colour would make for a more proffessional presentation...Eh what????? :sol:

Reply to dokk2

At the very least, please significantly increase the number of topics.
Thank you.

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Reply to jtt283

jtt283 wrote :

At the very least, please significantly increase the number of topics.
Thank you.

I would agree with this. I hated the Firefox chase but prefer it to only seeing a few topics. At the very least show a dozen or so of the topics.

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Reply to deuce271

Bring it back! Its nice being able to see a bunch of topics rather than just a few.

Reply to Kaldor

mike99 wrote :

I thought I was the only one having that problem. A work-around is to quote the original post or one of the replies, then erase the quote.

Reply to jsc

the scrolling hot forum list was very nice... even with having to chase the links.
alternate solution is to have an extra link. where it says "see all forums"
to actually point to a list of hot topics. instead of just taking your to the forum index. I can get there anytime by clicking on forums link at the top of the page.

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Reply to MadHacker

YES! The forum topics never change quick enough anymore!

Reply to runswindows95

deuce271 wrote :

I would agree with this. I hated the Firefox chase but prefer it to only seeing a few topics. At the very least show a dozen or so of the topics.

My thoughts exactly.

Reply to aevm

Yes IMO.

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YES

Reply to bobbknight

Its great the scrolling forum is gone. No more trolls spending all night replying to the scroll in a sad attempt at poster of the year honors.

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Reply to MrsBytch

I hate the mouse over to stop scrolling part because it doesn't work in Opera. There should be a list like it is now but it should have like 50 hot topics not the tiny 10 link window (subpages anyone) it has now.
MORE TOPICS : YES PLEASE
SCROLLING with MOUSE OVER to STOP : no thankyou unless you fix it so it works in Opera.
The Dropdown menus from the current version also don't work(barf). What kind of webpage coding is this anyway?

Reply to Andrius

Yes, yes, and yes! Bring back the scrolling forum list!

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Reply to chunkymonster

YES!

I just want to point-out to those who mentioned the "topic case feature" that it it no longer exists under Firefox 3 (planned final release in June I think).

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Reply to Zenthar

Yes, too little topics now.

Reply to badsmed

More Topics.

I don't care how you do it.

Automatic Scrolling.
Scroll Bar.
Perhaps even keep a small list on the main page, but provide a very long list on the Forum Page.

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Reply to zenmaster

^agreed, I don't remember exactly how many topics were on the scroll list before but it was definitely more than there are now. It's a lot easier to miss interesting topics with the current setup.

Reply to Lord Gornak

yes i want back and the all US version
i hate it when ever its become to .co.uk i switch it to.com
and i wish the update the benchmrks

Reply to chechnyan

let is scroll just slow it down a little bit so its not all spastic. New topics are interesting, lots more interesting than the front page in my opinion which is not humble.

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This topic has been moved from the section CPU-Components to section Bestofmedia's Site Feedback by Jake_Barnes

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