Phoronix Redesign is live!

[Michael]

I do think that most of these narrow article complaints is from the mere fact they really tried to jam a lot of sections in that one poor home page. I think it'll improve dramatically as soon as they can clean up the front page.

By this afternoon the front page should be revised.

[Licaon]

can these layouts be made out of CSS or somethin so that i can choose which one to use?

i barely got my self familiar with the last one, but the new one is terrible, too many columns

10x

[David]

Really
don't
like
the
new
design.

Makes
Phoronix
Look
Like
A
Google
Ad.

Totally
ugly
on
a
widescreen.

Will
probably
stop
browsing
the
front
page -
again.

Point taken, keep in mind we are working on this.

[David]

New front page is live. We removed the right sidebar for home pages. The information seemed redundant anyhow. We hope this is an improvement. We may work on a widescreen version very soon.

[1c3d0g]

Oh yes! It's *perfect* now, IMO. Job well done!

[David]

Oh yes! It's *perfect* now, IMO. Job well done!

that always makes us feel good =)

[niniendowarrior]

Much more improved, David. Cheers!

[DanL]

Using the old_home link I mentioned allows that as well as subscribing to the RSS feed.

The old_home link looks exactly the same as the new page and it still has more detail on the articles than the news headlines.

[user5124]

New front page is live. We removed the right sidebar for home pages. The information seemed redundant anyhow. We hope this is an improvement. We may work on a widescreen version very soon.

Didn't mean to sound harsh about the old interface :-)

It would be great to see a version that uses all the available screenspace for widescreen.

[ivanovic]

Okay, my general impression after the latest set of changes:
When reading a news or articles:
It is really good. The main text in the middle, normal top/left bar and the latest news/articles on the right. That is really good, *but*...

When reading the "frontpage" (the one you reach when typing http://www.phoronix.com into the browser) I would prefer to have the same "article bar" on the right that you see when watching the articles. And seeing the normal news and articles mixed in the middle. I come to the page rather often to have a look for new news, not for new articles (cf the number of new news and the number of new articles). So in this matter I would prefer the old way with showing the whole news/article (if it is not too long) and adding a "read more..." link when that news/article gets longer than one paragraph. This way it is a whole lot easier to realize that there are new *news* and articles, not only new articles.