Is it possible, or is the newest update to the forums actually an improvement??

Given that every other change BOM has made has actually made the forum worse, Im suprised to see that some things like screen width, info bar option, and ad opt out have been fixed.

Of course, it doesnt look like they actually proof checked their own work....theyve croped text on the left side. Goobers.

No it still sucks, just more now. It also seems to take longer for the information on the right hand side to load. Instead of doing something useful like perhaps adding a small message balloon that briefly appears over the "mystery" buttons, they just put the same, if not more "mystery" buttons in box at the top of the forum header.

The forum is still counter-intuitive and a room full of well-trained monkeys could do better.

I don't know.
But I'm glad to see the Sylvan advertisement is gone.

I get a strange drop down whenever I hover over "quote message" that makes the icons drop down, and consequently off my pointer, which makes it pop back up, then get selected again, etc.

IOW, all I see is stutter unless I place my mouse at the bottom of the icon and it overlaps both icon positions.

Bad.

And what is with this side crap? I really REALLY do not need more clutter on the page when I am reading posts.

I and I OH so LOVE the ads that are now on the top right!!!!

I mean, if they could make this site any harder to hide while surfing at work I would have to, well STOP COMING HERE.

And I am sure I am not alone in that.

Guys, if you want to exile your stealth-surfers here, keep making your site look less and less informative and more commercial. I am sure that will increase your professional readership, reputation, and comessurate advertising rates/income.

PS, the "hide this" is rather clunky too, but the option is nice.

I also do not really need that funky looking status bubble/window at the top. KISS is the right way to go with things like that....

Hmmm.. The only ads I get are at the bottom of the page and I've not noticed any changes. Seriously guys try the site in Opera. It just seems to work better that way than any other I have found.

Well, it's a new look, which is refreshing once in awhile...what's up with your profile being shown on top? I know who I am, thank you.

What web browser are you guys using? I'm running firefox, and it's reasonably usable, thank you.

I'm running FF with AdBlock Plus...... Things run fine....

Biggest difference I see is the width.... It's a whole lot wider... Maybe too wide????

The new look is nice.
I agree a layout refresh is nice once in a while.

What I do like about the old layout was the scrolling forum hot topics on the front page.
I don't like the static forum hot topic box on the front page. The scrolling forum hot topics on the old front page linked to more active threads in the forum.
I really liked having the option to pick from more than two dozen forum hot topics on the old front page.
The new front page only displays ten threads with new posts. It's not enough to choose from.
Also the old front page had more latest news topics displayed. But the new front page has four or five latest news topics and the option to view additional pages if you choose to scroll through.
I probably will not pay attention to the latest news topics on the Tom's Hardware front page anymore. I'll just go directly to the TG Daily webpage to view the latest news topics.

On a side note: Evilonigiri your user name makes me think that you are an evil sushi eating woman. Do you care if that's how I think you look like? I imagine you as a chick with big hooters wearing a black leather S&M bondage outfit torturing men with chopsticks. Also could you wear a long red hair wig in my fantasy?

I hope you don't feel insulted. I'm the forum titty pervert.

RC - There are a few problems with the updates on the UK site, like it's still the same. There is a thread going over in the structure section as a lot of the brits still can not Postreply and are having to quote to reply within a thread. You might want to have a quick look as things are clearly not right at the moment.

I don't have any control or anything to do with the change.... I'm just like you, it turned on yesterday & here we are.... Same as the last change....

It's not turned on in the UK at all. We still seem to be getting the old site and the old bugs. The team have been asking for feedback in the thread so the admin team are aware.

fcuking double post crapage. This site is behaving like a total dog for me today.

I got them looking at it.....