DaveLegg Developer Posted July 30, 2011 Developer Share Posted July 30, 2011 The site is quite slow to load actually. The first load may well be, whilst all the resources used are loaded up and cached for the first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Veteran Posted July 30, 2011 Author Veteran Share Posted July 30, 2011 So to the initial quibbles: 'Blog like' - the content is largely identical, so do give specifics there as I'm unclear. 'Slow loading' - initial page may be slow due to caching, but subsequent loads will be a lot faster than the old design. 'Forums too?' - yes, soon we hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystic Mungis Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 I like the new layout of the comments and the addition of the "About the author" box, I also really like the little loading icon in the top right e.g when you change the feed between normal and headline :) The logo and favicon should be the same whether your on the frontpage or the forums, looks a bit silly when it changes depending on what your on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmatik Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Give some specifics please, all feedback is welcome :) Well, for starters, everything seems bunched together. So, my eyes are having to work a lot harder to discern the different parts of the front page. Maybe it's just me - currently, with the forums view, it is nicely spaced out and very easy to determine what is what. I did change the news section to just headings, which makes it a little easier - the default presented too much text that was too much alike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveLegg Developer Posted July 30, 2011 Developer Share Posted July 30, 2011 Same content, nothing is changed. Extra exposure of gaming and software posts though, should hopefully help bring some life back to those areas :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexcyn Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 I don't like the left hand side icons under Gaming etc. If that was gone it would be ace. EDIT: OK I just realized those icons are for the topics posted... for some reason it looks as though they are separate from the actual article. It looks weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1for-matik Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Well it's different and reminds me an ancient design of a french news website (very similar) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jafoman Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 It looks f'ing amazing. Great job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SionicIon Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 You're working so hard on this and haven't put any effort into landscape support for IE9 Mobile...what gives... It looks nice, but I don't really go on Neowin anymore on my computer, I go on my phone...which looks the same as before...broken landscape support... :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeston Veteran Posted July 30, 2011 Veteran Share Posted July 30, 2011 'Forums too?' - yes, soon we hope. :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted July 30, 2011 Veteran Share Posted July 30, 2011 News logos are only there for old posts. New posts will have proper images. I'm trying to update some of them now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrispinto Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 The new site is really really aesthetically delightful Nice work guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJGM Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 A bit sluggish at first, even on my Core2Quad based system, but settles down after a little while. It was quite a surprise seeing the site with a new look again. It doesn't seem long since the last revamp. Now that I think about it, how long ago was that? Can't help thinking though, with the flatter look, and with Segoe UI set as the font, the site now looks kind of, Metro-ish. I'd like to see Segoe UI become the default font for the forum, for those that have it active on their systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farstrider Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 I actually think it looks better, but has become rather blogosphere ish! It's no massive deal, so to all the negative reactions, in a weeks time you won't even notice the difference tbh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTaylor69 Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Nice work guys! I personally like Tile 2 (of the light theme) since it gives more focus on the middle content :) What's everyone else's favourite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmatik Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 It would be nice if we could get the 'Headline' view and expand it as needed. I guess that's my major gripe. I can't deal with the 'Normal' setting, there's too much text - if we could expand Headline view then it would be much easier on the eyes, not to mention from Headline view you have to load each headline if you click on it. Not sure if that's possible though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ-Light Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 I love the design and load very fast for me, better that the other one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pygmy_Hippo Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Different, but very pretty - count me in as a satisfied customer :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexcyn Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 News logos are only there for old posts. New posts will have proper images. I'm trying to update some of them now. Woot can't wait to check it out then. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranmas Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 The web page does not load correctly on Firefox or IE9. I waited 5 minutes for the damn thing to load and It never showed a single story. Clicking through the different pages also showed nothing until I got to page 4. I jumped to page 2300 something, and it loaded near instantly. Went back to page 1, 2 ,3 and still nothing. Firefox eventually started to show pages 1, 2, and 3 but IE9 has been sitting on page 2 for a half an hour now and nothing has shown up where you would expect the 'news' to show up. The adds, top of the page, and everything else has loaded but there is nothing of any news. Damn fool thing to do. Updating your page without making sure that people can actually use it properly. That is what pushing a beta site is for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djdanster Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 I have a bug : If I view the comments, if I press "Like" (Yes, new feature and I like it :D) I get an error message next to the like text saying "you already like this comment". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 nice darkside remix..... usin the BG with the circles.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MFH Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 The new design looks interesting, wouldn't say anything about the quality right now. IMHO it doesn't improve the usability? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 hmmm, frontpage look like Metroish! not that it is bad thing ;) as per usual, how long before the forum board follow suite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Looks amazing, will the forum be updated as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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