Revert NEW Homepage Design To Something Useable


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Is this what causes the continual pages crashing mobile Safari?

Here is a developer tip. Check more browsers than Chrome before rolling something out. BrowserStack is an excellent tool. 

On 30/09/2025 at 14:29, Nik Louch said:

It’s properly screwed on mobile 

I keep getting page crashes. Did Microsoft have a hand in testing this?

I'm not getting the page crashing, mainly because mine is still on tiles but the 3 across with the community feed further down is a little wonky, also it's not fitting the content to the screen size on my iPhone :/ 

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+1. This is awful, go back. The site looks broken on desktop Edge and desktop Firefox. Did you guys actually try this design before going public with it? Because I'm having a hard time believing that something like this could have slipped through with proper testing.

Windows 11 25H2 26200.6584
Edge 140.0.3485.94

Mobile Edge also has issues with it (Android 15, Edge 140.0.3485.98).

 

On 30/09/2025 at 16:06, leonsk29 said:

+1. This is awful, go back. The site looks broken on desktop Edge and desktop Firefox. Did you guys actually try this design before going public with it? Because I'm having a hard time believing that something like this could have slipped through with proper testing.

Windows 11 25H2 26200.6584
Edge 140.0.3485.94

Mobile Edge also has issues with it (Android 15, Edge 140.0.3485.98).

 

The benefit of working in production; it’s always up to date!

Ya, the new layout is pretty bad. Why do I have to scroll down to see latest community activity. It should be in the top right were it's always been.

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It's broken with ANY sort of ad-blocker. You get a message that load.html is blocked and you get 

On 30/09/2025 at 16:11, adrynalyne said:

It loads page, isn’t mobile friendly at all; then blows up. 

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This happens in Firefox on Windows 11 with ANY adblocker.

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OMG they did a Windows11 here, seriously its horrible switch it back for real, the content its all messed up, it even give a prompt of error and having something to report thats not helpful at all

On 30/09/2025 at 20:02, corrosive23 said:

It's broken with ANY sort of ad-blocker. You get a message that load.html is blocked and you get 

This happens in Firefox on Windows 11 with ANY adblocker.

I turned off my ad-blocker just to check if anything changed, and no, the site remains broken, so the ad-blocker isn't the problem.

On 30/09/2025 at 20:09, eilegz said:

OMG they did a Windows11 here, seriously its horrible switch it back for real, the content its all messed up, it even give a prompt of error and having something to report thats not helpful at all

I just can't believe how these people went public with this design in this state, they really did a Windows 11 here. The issues are so big and obvious that you can say that zero testing was done before pushing it to production. Wow, just wow.

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On 30/09/2025 at 19:21, leonsk29 said:

I just can't believe how these people went public with this design in this state, they really did a Windows 11 here. The issues are so big and obvious that you can say that zero testing was done before pushing it to production. Wow, just wow.

i really want to know the design choice or why they think that the new design improve anything over the original, for instance we have so much wasted space on left and right space that could be use for the community stuff and the poll,  for many things now we have scroll between redundant content  and even worse there are no consistency its just content over content with no logical order or even any resemblance of clarity.  We are talking about the design then the next thing its the bugs, the error prompts hitting cancel allow me to watch the content when pressing ok make it even worse and time wasting process that will repeat itself, again i question all the thing involved in the process of why they change it

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On 30/09/2025 at 19:17, leonsk29 said:

I turned off my ad-blocker just to check if anything changed, and no, the site remains broken, so the ad-blocker isn't the problem.

Just have to refresh the page a couple times.

On 30/09/2025 at 17:17, leonsk29 said:

I turned off my ad-blocker just to check if anything changed, and no, the site remains broken, so the ad-blocker isn't the problem.

Looks like it might just be dns-based blockers. I turned off Wipr and it still crashed, but removing Pi-hole fixed it. 
 

Not that I am going to do that past testing. 

On 30/09/2025 at 20:34, Warwagon said:

Just have to refresh the page a couple times.

Nope, I turned off the ad-blocker and Edge's built-in Tracking Protection, closed the browser, loaded the site again a couple times and the problems are still there.

On 30/09/2025 at 20:37, adrynalyne said:

Looks like it might just be dns-based blockers. I turned off Wipr and it still crashed, but removing Pi-hole fixed it. 
 

Not that I am going to do that past testing. 

I don't have any DNS-based blockers like Pi-Hole or AdGuard currently running, just a browser extension (Adblock Plus).

On 30/09/2025 at 17:41, leonsk29 said:

I don't have any DNS-based blockers like Pi-Hole or AdGuard currently running, just a browser extension (Adblock Plus).

Well I’m done trying to understand wtf they did here then. 😂

When I first saw the homepage, I thought they actually broke the coding somehow.  Glad I'm not the only one that thinks it's atrocious in its current state.

On 30/09/2025 at 18:03, Lord Nite said:

When I first saw the homepage, I thought they actually broke the coding somehow.  Glad I'm not the only one that thinks it's atrocious in its current state.

They did. 

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