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• araczynski - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link

  too 'busy', why does every site have to try to deliver the world???
  
  FOCUS

• Loyal - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link

  I've been visiting AT pretty much daily since day one. I've been through all fo the site re-designs and re-names. I've never had a huge problem with anything. (Even load times last summer when I was stuck on dial-up, and I'm normaly a braodband user.) I agree with most others. News and reviews should be prominent. I don't want to feel like if I'm not quick enough I might miss something. Please change things (if not back to the way they were), so that at least reviews and news are easier to view. Make a new page for this if you have to. I don't want to take AT from my daily visit for many years to one I only visit every once in a while.

• KF - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link

  Every change I noticed was for the better.
  
  The site looks nice, but I really don't give a crap about that. 99% of the informative content is in the text. It is very commonly the case that piles of pictures end up being confusing visual noise. It takes talent and restraint to avoid this.
  
  I don't know what people mean by "the old site." Are they oblivious, or just casual newbies posturing as regulars? It had been changed, revised, and diddled with many, many times; sometimes for better and sometimes for worse, but it had got to the point of being a hodgepodge. It was the right idea to do a total rethink. To me the present site is more or less the same as the old site, except for incidental acoutrements, but with a neater, tighter organization.
  
  Loading fast is good. At 28,800 (my speed), 300K takes 2 minutes. What I like to do is check sites to see what is up today. There is no reason why this cannot be quick, as shown by what you have done. If Anandtech was not my top favorite site, I would have skipped it most days, the amount of time it was taking.
  
  It's not much of an excuse that broadband is around. It's still bloat, waste and clutter.
  
  If the site designer tries to please everyone, he will please no one. Complainers and loudmouths are the most likely to leave comments. You cannot set a sensible course by using them as guide, or a course that will please the majority either. Some kind of internal compass has to be the primary guide.
  
  I remember when Anand was a child phenomenon (15? sheesh), and this kind of site was a new thing, so I've seen a lot of versions of this site. At one time Anand was doing videos you could download. So I saw this little kid, who looked like he was up until 3 AM and was about to drop, taking the screws out of something with an electric screwdriver. Little Anand was one of the guys who set the course this kind of hard-core tekky site would take.

• ImJacksAmygdala - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link

  I come to Anandtech to get user comment information for the reviews and the news. I like access to that stuff on the front page. Currently everything on the front page is useless fluff smothered in banners, and I have to navigate much more to find useful user comment information. If it stays like this then atleast offer a monthly buyers guide for highend systems like July's article and please throw in a recommendation for HDTV screens for people that want to game on an HTPC. (it hard to find this information) I wish Hard OCP had user comment links with their news....

• GrimReapa - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link

  All of the advertisements on the homepage really suck. There are three banners that are exactly the same.
  
  The new site looks better, but where are the reviews and such. It was nice coming to the homepage to see exactly what was new. This way makes it harder to figure out what is new.

• Me - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link

  Do you really need eight ads on the home page? Considering the bottom three are exactly the same, what's the point?
  
  Check out your speed report and start optimizing...
  
  http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/
  analyze/wso.php?
  url=http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/default.aspx#114
  
  

• ImJacksAmygdala - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link

  The Anandtech site needs an icon of the A with the orange dash for the site bookmark icon. I currently looks like a blank page in Firefox.... HardOCP's icon looks more professional.

• Zar0n - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link

  I like the new fonts and color.
  
  But I prefer the old design with more links to new reviews.
  At least the last 6 reviews, with bigger pictures.
  
  Link to all Top Insider Stories?

• Anonymous - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link

  Riot! We want old one! We want old one!

• mikecel79 - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link

  I like the new design so far but I have a few things I think should be changed.
  
  On the right hand side it should be Latest News then Anand's Blog and then Anand's Picks. Actually I would just leave news on the right hand side and remove the other stuff. Makes the site look like it's all about Anand and not the community.
  
  In the middle I think Latest Reviews should be 3 or 4 deep instead of 2. Top Insider stories can then be placed under More Reviews. It seems like there is so little content on the front page now.
  
  As for the tabs at the top, why is there space between them in IE 6? They should be right next to each other. Also why just a Linux section? Why not an OS section? We don't seperate OSes in the forums, why on the main site?
  
  Finally, make the image at the top a link! Makes getting back to the main site from the forums a PITA.