Windows 9 Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Software news is excluded*, and has always been by default. We did have a toggle to include software news, we may add this back in the near future. Look at the heading under promos, should say Latest Stories That's what I was looking for, a way to include software along with the main news articles. You used to have a simple "Hide/Show Software News" toggle link. Please add that back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice_Blue Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 What's wrong with it? Screenshot (419).png Come on, Dot. You are actually going to make me spell it out for you? What percentage of your screen is occupied by 3 static items? Lord Method Man, Raa and tsupersonic 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-scratch Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 rocking the black theme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Come on, Dot. You are actually going to make me spell it out for you? What percentage of your screen is occupied by 3 static items? You're making the banner images worse than they actually are. And they're easily bypassed with a quick scroll of the wheel or finger. How else is Neowin to announce or promote an item? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenser.d Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Come on, Dot. You are actually going to make me spell it out for you? What percentage of your screen is occupied by 3 static items? The real question is what percentage of me cares? Just because you don't like it doesn't mean nobody does. Course I'm used to it as I frequent Polygon and it's the same. Just took a miniscule amount of time to get used to it, but it's much nicer and I'm glad Neowin followed suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Method Man Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 What's wrong with it? Screenshot (419).png Wow, worse than I had imagined. I might as well dig out my 800x600 CRT monitors. Raa 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Wow, worse than I had imagined. I might as well dig out my 800x600 CRT monitors. :rolleyes: MikeChipshop 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 (edited) Can the option for changing comment order somehow stick? I've had to change it several times to reverse the order (as it should be). When I do change the order, to post a comment I have to scroll back to the top. Can the new comment box get moved when the order is changed? (Or simply be moved back to the bottom) After making a comment, if the order was changed, the new comment appears on the top, not the bottom as I would expect it to be. When I've scrolled down, when I scroll up so much as one line, the top header springs back down again. This forces more scrolling because I was about to read from the top and the header comes over it. Can the header not show when scrolling up until the top of the page is reached, or if the header is "moused over" (if it's not going to be stickied - the recommended option) Trying to give feedback in a non-negative way. I like it. Since it's more based towards the Microsoft retro look. You spelt metro wrong. :p Exactly. Can you imagine the situation for those with 1366x768 screens? Ridiculous. That's what i'm on at the moment, and I can tell you I see almost nothing of value at first glance at the home page. I see 3 massive pictures, a header bar, 2 cut off pictures, and 3 community activity (forum) posts. Crazy. Edited August 25, 2014 by Raa Ice_Blue 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 In my humble opinion, those targets are just a tad too large . . . For comparison, look at the size of the advertisement directly above the targets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinggus Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I like it. Since it's more based towards the Microsoft retro look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted August 25, 2014 Supervisor Share Posted August 25, 2014 Can the option for changing comment order somehow stick? I've had to change it several times to reverse the order (as it should be).Trying to give feedback in a non-negative way. I'm also having issues getting this setting to stick. It remembers across multiple articles within a browser session, but after closing the browser and opening it again, I get the default Newest First order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Scrip Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 The majority of complaints have been "it sucks" and "change it back" with no real constructive criticism. Here's my constructive criticism: Make the pictures smaller... make the text smaller. In short... put it back like it was :D But seriously... I'm using the same monitor today that I was using two days ago before the change. But everything now looks too big and too bloated with no real benefits... in my opinion. Raa, Lord Method Man and FunkyMike 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Open Minded Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I like it now that I changed it to Dark Side and list view. Looks nice. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Order_66 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Week actually yes, you just give it under the guide of disliking it, but it really is aversion to change Worse are the inner that seem incapable of grasping the adaptive concept, but that's for another time Perhaps if you were able to escape your arrogant, elitist and condescending attitude, you might see that people actually do not like certain things and it doesn't mean they are scared of change. Raa, Ian W and FunkyMike 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted August 26, 2014 Veteran Share Posted August 26, 2014 Not really fond of the news size as they are simply too large and very little content is visible without scrolling,and that for the content delivery is never good. The worst offense is that commenting system does not show up or work in Opera 12.17, still my main browser. Does it still happen in a up to date version of Opera? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anibal P Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Perhaps if you were able to escape your arrogant, elitist and condescending attitude, you might see that people actually do not like certain things and it doesn't mean they are scared of change. Did I offend your poor sensitive feelings, get over it, it's very simply great of change, especially since this one is better overall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 it's very simply great of change, especially since this one is better overall In your opinion. Sszecret 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted August 26, 2014 Veteran Share Posted August 26, 2014 Keep it nice guys. Feedback with suggestions instead of negativity should be posted in site & forum issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anibal P Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Keep it nice guys. Feedback with suggestions instead of negativity should be posted in site & forum issues. I'll be good, I think I've stated my opinion already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Come on, Dot. You are actually going to make me spell it out for you? What percentage of your screen is occupied by 3 static items? Right? Neowin staff: Look at your partner site, Techspot - they have the layout done beautifully. Yes, it's Modern/Metro inspired, which I have not a problem with at all. Let's do a quick analysis: 1) Techspot header is much smaller - makes a huge difference. Their header is clear and concise, without taking up much space. Your header on the other hand has a large logo that is out of place, and just general empty space. 2) Look at Techspot's tile structure - see how much content I can get from not even scrolling? 7 items (at the moment) vs. Neowin's sorta 4 major headlines - which at the moment isn't working right. See attached image - why is the second headline cut off? 3) General readability - the fonts on the front page are just flat out too big...Many people including me are zooming out of the site, which tells you something is wrong. This is all on a 1080p monitor, which keep in mind is still a fairly high resolution by today's standards. The problem I have is not with the layout - your content per screen resolution is very bad compared to other sites, and the font sizes are just huge. Your competitor sites deliver far more content without having to scroll... Ice_Blue and Sszecret 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BavonWW Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........... Turn the clock back. Please! Raa 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leo_the_lion Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 The rendering of fonts in Chrome is poor but in IE 11 it's top notch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Account no longer active) Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 What's wrong with it? Screenshot (419).png One latest story vs: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 One latest story vs: So you're comparing a horizontal screenshot on a tablet to a vertical screenshot of an old layout on a phone? Ok... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashG Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Nope, don't like it. Raa and (Account no longer active) 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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