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I typically take a look at Toms hardware at night these days on a P4M 2.0ghz cheapo laptop with 1gb of ram.  With the new format change, I've noticed massive increases in processor usage and some downright silly behavior.  I run Firefox 2 with Noscript installed and I can see the many many piles of junk that also load with the tomshardware pages which is a major frustration in itself. However to use the article pulldowns (to go to another page in the article)  I now have to allow the base site in addition to bestofmedia... it would be convenient if such basic function was a component of the base domain so that I don't have to spend time diagnosing what to unlock just to see tomshardware pages. Also, tomshardware is now one of the very few sites that simply bogs this older laptop down completely, chewing its battery up.  
 
Does tomshardware and the associated sites really need to run such intensive and inefficient content?  I can watch video laden or heavily intensive multimedia sites that are not as hard on this laptop.  My suggestion would be to work on making the code for this site more efficient and to cut down on additional crap content for users of less powerful & mobile machines.  Yes, of course I have more powerful laptops and some very powerful multi-processor multi-monitor machines but I don't think that is an excuse for a website that bogs down older hardware.  It seems to me that as the tiny web browsing machines like the eepc, olpc, cell phones, etc become more popular that tomshardware and its sites should be simplifying rather than bogging down simpler hardware.
 
I enjoyed the site 2 revisions ago when it actually linked directly to reviews and content as well....

Evaluating the scroll thing.   Results will go here.
 
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] dware-home

Bring back the scrolling forums.

 
Not without limiting our case options to a milk crate, or something equally degenerate.   HOWEVER, the computer sitting next to it has got...
 

 
another bonus picture from the $500 pc.
 

 
Leap of death!

I'm not saying that the main TH site has to have dynamic sizing. But I think it does need to be wider, and I'm getting that sense from other people too. I think it's time to say that 1024x768 is no longer the standard resolution and move on. Just give us a little less gray on each side of the screen, even if it doesn't resize.
 
As for TH on cell phones...yikes! In what world would someone need--really need--to pull up TH while in a computer store? I live in Philly, and there's only one real computer store left--Micro Center. I don't see that scenario happening enough to bother mentioning.

Still waiting on this one.

I have been using your site for years primarily for the benchmarks. My main reason for doing so was the well designed graph/query system that you used to have. Unfortunately I have to say that the new benchmark graphs are impractical and awkward, which is real shame.  
 
I always found myself checking out other links on your site whenever I was checking the latest benchmarks. Whilst the new site looks more modern, I have to say it is likely that I will not be spending much time with you guys anymore. It would be great if you could perhaps revise the benchmark graphs, but I am only one person and may be the only one who finds them unpleasant to use.
 
Good luck in the future guys.

Some constructive feedback on the charts. Any time the value shown for a CPU/video card etc doesn't fit on the bar the link does not pop up the information window unless you click on the bar itself, which is very small. To show you what I mean:

Also can automatic reply notification be activated for quick replies too? That would be really handy.

im getting tranparent adverts blocking out half the page on both the forums and homepage.
have to hit the back button to see or do anything.
 
getting really hacked off with this new site

Not everyone can buy a new computer or monitor every six months. Some still use 3-year-old laptops.
 
Dynamic page size would work if today's publishers were not so hung up on flashy appearance. Go to neowin.net and see how they solved it.
 

The rolling forum posts feature contributed to the stickiness of the site.  You willingly forfeited of your site's strength by deleting it.
 
Granted, you have a multi-segmented audience to appeal to, which makes your job difficult (i.e., amateur teens through seasoned professionals), but the forum post feature was something that appealed to all segments.
 
If it doesn't cost you anything, you should consider adding it again.  Or at minimum, lengthen the space devoted to the "hot" forum post titles.

...and some other things:
 
1) I used to rely on your news headlines as a summary substitute for other news sources.  Now that you trimmed down the headlines section, I tend to visit the other sites in lieu of yours.  Not good.
 
2) I used to wait for the forum posts to scroll, and in doing so I increased my avg. time spent on your page.  You willingly forfeited that benefit.    
 
3) The way to deal with 1) and 2) is to add scrolling headlines also.
 
Take this as one man's opinion, but remember that you will rarely ever get customer feedback reflective to what your customers are really thinking--because often your customers don't take the time to conceptualize what they are really thinking.  Instead, their behavior dictates your business performance and you are left divining the reasons from clues left in customer feedback...

 
Forums backend/speed discussions are scheduled for next month.  This may involve server stuff, so it's probably going to take time.
 
I'd like to know what the review thing is myself.  I've put the query to the forums dev team.
 

 
News headlines are getting tweaked.  More headlines.  Less whitespace.
 

 
As noted earlier, evaluating design options right now.  Options include, replicating the functionality of the old version, copying the style of the "News" box.  Making a page dedicated to nothing but the hot forum topics.  
 
Followup on this goes here:
 
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] dware-home
 

 
Charts are being worked on as we speak.  
The biggest issue is making sure the charts are good for the "I have an X,  How much more performance if I get a Y?"  
And making sure that works, even for cases like SLI.  
 
All followup on charts issue goes here:  
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] harts-here
 
 

I can wait a while, I just hope it doesn't get any slower Alternatively, you could force the Australian government to stop our ISPs ripping us off with high prices and low speeds and monthly usage caps.
 

I don't know why so many people don't like the new charts. They do the same thing as the old ones, they just have a few bugs in them.

Terrible new design, way too much reliance on scripting (I even detected some XSS), which makes it hardly readable in Firefox with NoScript (and yes I allowed tomshardware.com and even bestofmedia.com).  I have to second the guy who cursed the new Charts section, too... it's just plain monstrous.  The old charts were compact, detailed, and the color-coding was a plus.  It's been said before, and I'll say it again: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
 
This place used to be one of the best tech news/reviews resources on the web, but I sense its gradual demise looming over this new layout scheme.

 
quite true.... same experience here....many of the cards listed aren't
actually available or the description doesn't identify them correctly
 
one of the beauties of the original charts is that it helped to offset the effort of hardware makers (esp vid cards) to confuse buyers by cross branding different generations of cards so that the names became meaningless in determining performance
 
I would often bring the charts to stores to compare models or place orders for a specific type....you couldn't do that with these charts
 
please...bring back the old chart format it was MUCH better
 
and by the way...is there a special reason why clicking on the video card charts takes you directly to the workstation graphic page instead of the VGA charts?
 

My Google home page is listing the same articles on your site since you switched over?  I wonder if Google is having trouble reading your new code?

Since the site has changed there is a good chance that GoogleBot needs to "crawl" through the site again, which happens only at set intervals.