I would like to thank everyone for their honest feedback on the new site. All I ask for is your patience as we continue to tweak and improve the site; I've taken all of your comments to heart and while I can't promise that we'll implement every last tweak you all want I'm absolutely committed to making the site as close to what you all want as possible.
A number of changes will be implemented this week so keep a look out for it :)
A number of changes will be implemented this week so keep a look out for it :)
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Judicator - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link
Hi guys.Here just to tell that the text size is too small to being read at naked eye :D
Seriously my dedsktop is 166x1200 and the text in your site is too small...
Most of recent sites have fallen into this pit...
could you make anithing about my little eyes??
keep on the good work
Bye.
Judicator
Crassus - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link
I'm glad you want to implement your audience’s suggestions. After all, a major design change that was not accepted by the audience proved to be the undoing of not only one website.If you happen to have time, could you state some of the thoughts that went into the new design, especially the things that were criticized? Which are the ones you promised to fix?
Greets from Germany,
Crassus
DG - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link
Er am I right in thinking doing something on the AT page (maybe reading comments?) is making the forum think you've read it and so no threads have the blue icon to show a new post in the thread?Maybe I messed up but I'm sure I didnt open http://forums.anandtech.com until a second ago, and none of the forums were marked as having a new post/thread in it.
Steven - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link
The layout is just as accessable as it was before. The only thing I think is out of place is the swirlie graphic at the top left corner before the AnandTech logo. It just looks out of place and ... strange. Where the rest of the site has a smooth, polished look, that swirlie is too rough and misshapen.silvrhand - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link
Too squished..You can only see a few latest articles and I can't see the old site to reference but it looks like you doubled the amount of adaware on the site..
http://www.strangeness.org/images/ads.png
Is a good example of too many ads.. Love the site, love the content, but this is a clean look but you have clumped up everything and added more ads it seems.
just my .02
Boz - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link
Like I said before, I think the speed issue is neglible. It's either intuitive content or fast loading jumble. The key is finding the in between.Not quite sure what triggered the redesigned. I noticed you said your 300kb home load was "unnacceptable", and I'm not so sure about that. Unacceptable to whom? You have one of the most influential and well-layed out tech. review sites on all of the net. I've made it my Firefox homepage for over a year now. You got to that status despite any complaint of the load time from myself or any of the older tens of thousands of users that frequent Anand.
Best of luck.
-sun - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link
My only comment would be to make in the right hand column an entry for just today's news and put it at the top. then put the blog and then 'Anand's picks' and finally, a 'recent news entry. I usually come to the site every morning to see the latest news and reviews first. i like where you have the reviews. But after you updated the web site the first time ... a few months ago, i guess, it seems like the news headlines are getting lost ... thanks for doing a great job though ..Anandtech rates as one of my #1 sites to visit everyday ...
-sun
Guspaz - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link
Great to hear you're taking our comments to heart :)While the general consensus is negative, I think a few commonly suggest changes (An overhaul of the new system of displaying articles for example) would fix most people's complaints.