Revert NEW Homepage Design To Something Useable

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adrynalyne

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On 30/09/2025 at 18:49, wakjak said:

This is what I would expect AI generated source code to produce.

Fits the theme with the AI generated articles showing up. 

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It appears that the right sidebar is merged with the middle headline column. There is no button to switch to the headline view. It needs to be done through cookies for the meanwhile. 🤔

name: view-style
value: view-headline

 

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On 30/09/2025 at 15:59, Legendary said:

The new website design is absolutely broken. Please revert to something useable. Image posted below

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I think the reason it looks that way is because I don't think they offer that layout anymore. At least I don't see a section on how to do it. But it is still honoring our old veridical layout, probably because of the browser cache, which this was not designed for. Which is why it looks all wonky.

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On 30/09/2025 at 23:04, Warwagon said:

I think the reason it looks that way is because I don't think they offer that layout anymore. At least I don't see a section on how to do it. But it is still honoring our old veridical layout, probably because of the browser cache, which this was not designed for. Which is why it looks all wonky.

That's no excuse, a little heads-up would have been fine, but leaving logged-in users out in the cold trying to figure those details by themselves wasn't the right move, IMO. Just publish an article one week before deployment explaining what's changing and if you need to do anything. That's what I'd have done, at least, not this mess.

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adrynalyne

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On 30/09/2025 at 20:04, Warwagon said:

I think the reason it looks that way is because I don't think they offer that layout anymore. At least I don't see a section on how to do it. But it is still honoring our old veridical layout, probably because of the browser cache, which this was not designed for. Which is why it looks all wonky.

Then they should have invalidated everyone’s relevant cookies after upgrade. 

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+Edouard Subscriber²

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 I'm sorry Steven but this redesign is a mess.

Mobile is broken on Chrome requiring endless scrolling just to view most recent articles. Brave mobile can't even fit your redesign on the page it appears. 

On desktop the flow of recent articles has been utterly destroyed. Every five articles you have page wide sections Reviews, Software, Editorials and Guides. You end up scrolling forever just to get to articles that are only less than a day old.

No, this will not do at all.

Edit: I'm assuming the hope is by promoting the Reviews, Software, Editorials and Guides sections the site may draw in more eyeballs. The problem is the site has been degraded for the loyal eyeballs Neowin already has.

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On 01/10/2025 at 02:03, 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.

Likewise, and they have.

Please rollback this change, it's bloody awful.

 

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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 think you meant Windows Me!

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Steven P. Administrators

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One of our devs knocked the wrong button and uploaded a test environment to the live site..

Because we are in Europe, we didn't see it till now. 

So basically, it was unintentional and will be corrected shortly!

It was amusing and eye-opening to read some of the assumptions and comments in this thread though, so thanks for that!

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It's reverted, but still some issues.

On some articles, after the page is loaded I got an error. If I click ok it says what's in the second image...

One of the articles - https://www.neowin.net/sponsored/free-license-to-winxvideo-ai-v30-for-pc-download-worth-6995/

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eiffel_g

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It's even worst now - I get same issues on main page.

Had to search with google the forum to post this.

And... Chrome is not the only browser in the world. Honestly, I've used it long time ago when it was light. Now it's the worst browser ever. It has replaced IE from old memes :D

I have the same issue in Firefox, but also in Edge and Vivaldi which are Chromium based, like Chrome.

 

L.E. I think it might be something cookie related ? If I use private mode it works in all 3 browser. Also tested on another PC I never used to visit neowin and no problems here too...

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adrynalyne

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On 01/10/2025 at 01:27, Steven P. said:

Works fine here in Chrome. The site was reverted back to normal, there are no UI updates implemented.

Testing only occurs in Chrome?

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On 01/10/2025 at 04:14, eiffel_g said:

It's reverted, but still some issues.

On some articles, after the page is loaded I got an error. If I click ok it says what's in the second image...

One of the articles - https://www.neowin.net/sponsored/free-license-to-winxvideo-ai-v30-for-pc-download-worth-6995/

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I also have that issue.

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adrynalyne

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On 01/10/2025 at 01:14, eiffel_g said:

It's reverted, but still some issues.

On some articles, after the page is loaded I got an error. If I click ok it says what's in the second image...

One of the articles - https://www.neowin.net/sponsored/free-license-to-winxvideo-ai-v30-for-pc-download-worth-6995/

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Click cancel; it should reload after and be fine until next time.  At least that’s how it works for me. 

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