This is the area to discuss how you voted on our latest Main page poll.

Neowin is constantly improving upon itself, adding new features and implementing (where possible) member requests for new features or squashing bugs.

The current theme is now uniform across the site and after a lengthy process of ironing out bugs we are now looking towards the next generation look for Neowin where simplicity is key and easier browsing through the site remains a priority.

Let us know how you feel about Neowin, how we can improve upon it or just let us know we are doing alright!

Thanks in advance.

I voted that it still rocks. It's been interesting to see how the site continues to evolve and add better or at least nicer-looking features.

And I like the shift theme infinitely better than swift on both the main pages and the forums.

Sometimes the tweaks to the latest forums posts and latest news take some getting used to, but once you get accustomed to them they work well.

With that said, I'm not wild about the latest news section, where it shows main headlines for a few seconds, then goes to a message, then back to main headlines...Every time a headline catches my eye, it changes to the other message, and I have to either wait for it to come back up, or scroll down the page to figure out which one it was. It's kind of annoying

leave it be for now!

Unless there is some major advances i dont see the need to change.

There is a site called www.boards.ie it uses a pretty basic system and its been up and running snce 1998 i believe, it doesnt work as nice as here or look as well but it hasnt hurt its numbers, so therefore, i dont think a huge overhaul of the site here is necessary for sometime yet.
Its the community rather than the board that makes a site imo..

I wanted to vote Still Rocks, but I think I'll have to go for Needs Some Work, because here the poll does not work.

The Poll is on the main news site on the sidemenu.. this is where it links to discuuss it

Still rocks from me theres bit I would like to be added but at the moment its very good.

I like how the site looks and how the forum works. It's much nicer than it was.

I like how the mods do a good job killing flames and rude posts.

It'd be cool if you had more colours available on the themes (orange/red/brown?), but it all looks slick and nice.

All the colours of Ubuntu?

oh no! you found me out !

Yea, I use the Ubuntu human theme and so the grey Neowin theme looks okay with it. I just thought ...

ya i tried to vote and it just had some popup then nothing
i naturally assumed that it would show me the results but nothing changed. am i just supposed to keep voting?

Looks great to me - one of the best designs i've seen IMO.

Neowin owns!

I love the new feature, kudos to the developer who put it together.

The poll will only work if you CTRL + F5

I voted Still Rocks. I wanted to jump of a bridge when recent post wasn't on the main page. I'm glad to see it's back!

+10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Leave it as is, it's the people that make it the best

I wanted to vote but clicking "Submit my vote!" does nothing. refreshing the page doesnt fix it.

It's the same for me.

I tried to vote for 'needs more work'. I don't mean to criticize Neowin as I know everyone has different preferences, and mine isn't commonly shared, and I know I haven't been at Neowin since the beginning. I personally don't like the new theme all that much, so I use Swift. However, Swift doesn't look like how it used to. In my opinion, Neowin looked the best in 2004/2005* I'm not sure if this is relevant to what you're asking, but now I feel Neowin's gotten more complicated with blogs and the like. They were alright when only staff had them, and I occasionally viewed them then, but now I don't view them at all (and yes, I have made one blog entry of my own, but that was just to test I'm no hypocrite). It seems not to look so impressive as I did, but I recognize things must change to progress Neowin. Also, I'm not a fan of the forum structure now - I preferred as it was. I know this obviously isn't any fault of Neowin's, but a lot of great members have left
Overall though, I still really like Neowin (I mean, I plan to resubscribe), and the atmosphere here is good.

*

Oh yeah, I use a 1024*768 monitor at the moment, so Neowin should look a hell of a lot better on a bigger one (which I'll get soon!). I guess that explains why things don't look as great.

Even I cannot vote.

I cannot vote either. I would vote for still rocks

Where's the poll? I like the way it looks, great job.

It is on the main page to the right and you will see it when you scroll down a little.

I voted it needs work, as when I clicked to vote even, nothing happened. Unfortunately, Neowin still needs LOADS of work!! It reminds me of Nero or Nvidia, gotta have it, but full of bloat! You other people saying it doesn't, are just sucking up and trying for brownie points!!


lcg said it all pretty accurately above.

Still rocks but needs some work . So I voted for the second option.

My options about neowin:

While I like the new updates, I fell the forums are, well a bit over packed. I like how you have anoucments on the top. Why not add the feedback and bug reports to the top? Everything neowin on the top.

Help & Discussion Center

• Guides and reviews should be under one section titled: Member submited material. bellow, subforums for guides and reviews
• Hardware Hangout - Fine, leave it
• Overclocking and PC Modding - Move in to hardware. Fits better in there.
• Internet, Network & Security- Fine, but move the Web Browser Discussion over to this catagory. After all, firs better in there.
• PDA, Tablet & Mobile Devices - Fine, leave it
• Software Discussion & Assistance - Fine, leave it
• Switchers - Fine, leave it. But may be move them to their own catagory. Like apple to the apple section and windows to the windows section. linux to linux section. but i'm 50/50 on this, so eirther way is fine

Customizing Windows

• Everything in this section is fine. Leave it the way it is

, Windows Support

• Windows Beta Discussion - Leave it. Remove longhorn server as its out of beta and about to ship RTM
• Windows Live Software & Services - Leave it. but remove the services from the info section. some arnt gonna be here anymore.
• Windows Vista Support - Keep of course
• Windows NT4/2000/XP Client & Windows NT4/2000/2003 Server - Combine these in to one catagory. Notice both feature NT4 and 2000?
• Windows 95/98/98SE/ME - Rename "older OS support" or keep it the same.
• Windows Tips, Tricks & Tweaks - Could this fit in with A Collection of Essential Guides ?

*nix Customization & Support

• Combine all forums under one catagory. How many use linux on here? they can just click a link and click what catagory they want.

Macintosh Customization & Support - Rename Apple Discussion

• Everything in here is fine. leave it

Designing & Programming

• Fine. leave it

General & Off Topic Discussion - You say "no off topic discussion" in the rules, so why this?

• General Discussion - Fine, including subfourms. but get rid of Vanishing Point Game Discussion its no longer around.
• Members' Metropolis - Fine
• NeoBay (Buy/Sell or Trade) -Fine

Recreational Activities

• Fine, leave those

Neowin Related Discussion

• Fine, but like I said above perhaps move to the top.

Let me know what you think. and fell free to add and change stuff to my list. but the current forum is WAY to over packed. needes some space to breathe.

I use the IP.Board Pro forum skin and I use the headline view, so that pretty sums up what I feel about it.

Still rocks!

No doubt about that.

I hardly think that because you don't use Linux, and don't think that there are many people here using it, that we ought to just throw all the threads into one forum.

Newbie(switcher), Client, Server, FAQs and Customization are all different, and ought to remain separated.

Neowin is organized quite well, but minor tweaks are done periodically to adjust for member needs.

I guess that what I am saying is that a few adjustment suggestions are ok, but no need to detail out a whole reorganization.

Well i'm saying a few forums are old, outdated and messed up. look at the NT4/2000. you have 2 of the same therads...

I voted "It still Rocks"

I like the polls on the main page that are related to the story. You should do more of them.

Voted still rocks

lol, people are being obessed with neowin!

You are only teh n00b.

By christmas you too will be obsessed.

may be, but i dont make it my life like some lol

snyper! its me chris from TVF.... yah i know, its ok

Voted: Needs work.

Still great to come to, but there's sometings.. mainly the layout. I still..miss the old way.

^ Can you describe what you're referring to? The old Swift skins are still available

Who would want to go back to the old look? The new look is just like the old, but lighter, and more mordern fell.

I love Neowin from the day I have join it!

I didnt have an appropriate choice because I used to be a paid "subscriber" then got so sick of the mickey mouse servers and lack of support when needed -- I even offered money to get better hardware !! That was about a year or two ago, then I stopped coming here altogether....I dont know if anything has changed - but the server/site is alot faster...

Im sure I'll get lectured for this...

I think it still needs a bit of work. On my work PC (Firefox 2.0.0.7) although the Main tab is highlighted, the Software contents are displayed instead. Clicking on Main again makes no difference. Wierd.

Bottom left, there's a dropdown that lets you choose what to show.

NEOWIN ROCKS!!!! No other site on the net like it!!! Great work guys

Totally agree with all comments here!

I voted still rocks.