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we need a one click access to the forums again, agreed.

Well it's not better just talking the front page... but different. It may take some getting used to... is it me or does it feel like MaximumPC? . Now I didn't read all the posts I agree it does feel like the text is lighter and harder to read.

I detest that when you click on the Discussion (Comments) from a news headline that new format for comments stinks I want the old Forum pages back.
 
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Change! I can probably take it
 
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Now that I've used the new format for a few days, I'd like to add that the design is great except for the font selection on text. The kerning is terrible. rn looks like m and rm looks like an m with too many legs. It makes reading difficult.
 

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Now that I've used the new format for a few days, I'd like to add that the design is great except for the font selection on text. The kerning is terrible. rn looks like m and rm looks like an m with too many legs. It makes reading difficult.

True.

You'd think with so many negative comments about it from me, you and others they'd fix it, wouldn't you?

Also, directly asking about the logic behind this design just gets ignored, too. Nice.

And we need that one click forum access back, as well.
 
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Even the greatest wizards sometime listen to what common people have to say.No?
It's not like "people are just stupid" and hate change.I don't think anybody here
is against a better looking layout, It's just: this is not it.
and I guess it's a matter of Time/Energy consumed for this new design and perhaps
personal pride for ignoring all complains loyal members and long time readers making
here. Well, what can I do? except maybe looking for my daily tech news elsewhere,
because, It's HARD to read , dammit!

Also, why visited links don't change color (purple)? is it a glitch or my browser's at fault here?
(chrome 26)
 
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Just noticed "controversial" news stories section. What metric is used to determine that? Does someone have to manually pick those?
 

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Just noticed "controversial" news stories section. What metric is used to determine that? Does someone have to manually pick those?

just number of comments with a date cut off
 
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Since there has been no improvement in the front page news font choice, I have now installed this utility (Extension) into Chrome to FORCE the VERDANA font "Change Font Family Style" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/change-font-family-style/aabledekpjmoghdjnpnhfkfpmjifklpb.

Legibility is vastly improved.

An unfortunate downside is that it affects all fonts everywhere on TPU, so it means to improve legibility in one area, the design style of the whole site is worsened. But there you do... crap design not fixed and not listening to user feedback has consequences.
 
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Since there has been no improvement in the front page news font choice, I have now installed this utility (Extension) into Chrome to FORCE the VERDANA font "Change Font Family Style" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/change-font-family-style/aabledekpjmoghdjnpnhfkfpmjifklpb.

Legibility is vastly improved.

An unfortunate downside is that it affects all fonts everywhere on TPU, so it means to improve legibility in one area, the design style of the whole site is worsened. But there you do... crap design not fixed and not listening to user feedback has consequences.

IMO that's a wrong extension. You don't have to change the whole font family for entire site. Use Stylist, Stylish or Stylebot or similar to adjust style for only the element you want - the news section
 
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Great thanks for the tip. I'll look them all up and report back on my fav

** EDIT **

Installed them all, but would recommend Stylebot as the simplest to use. How?

1./ Load up tpu front page
2./ Click on the stylebot logo "CSS"
3./ Click on the select button (top LHS of CSS menu with the "mouse arrow over a box" icon)
4./ Select offending (offensive font) paragraph on tpu webpage
5./ Change font family to Helvetica/arial on the CSS menu
6./ Profit!

****

Thanks again for the app tip.
 
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