1.
My major gripe is that we can no longer tell if another user is online or not looking at their posts. Also which forum they were browsing through at any time.
Which is a feature I subconsciously used to prioritize which threads to reply too and monitor a bit more attentively afterward. Just knowing if the thread was probably going to get a reply soon helped. Also the ability to determine where users are at any time was useful, if the thread creator was in some other section thats a hint to me as to what may be confusing them or if they were trying to pull together a rig by asking each forum what parts to get (obviously not very efficient and great potential for mixed messages).
2.
Although its great that as a registered Toms Hardware member, I can enjoy the forums ad-free, the fact that it is told to me by a banner ad is quite annoying :lol:
Then to almost add irony to it, the banner ad that says there are no ads invariably is advertising some portion of the Tom's website.
Would be great if that was removed or if there is an option to remove it, it be more apparent.
3.
Can no longer navigate to the sub-forum from within a thread.
Easiest example of this would be that I hang around the Water-Cooling sub-forum, which is inside the Overclocking forum. I don't interact much with the Overclocking forum at large, just sticking with the Water-cooling mainly. Its somewhat annoying that to go to a view of just the water-cooling topics I have to navigate back out to the main forum page, then back into water-cooling. The option to go to sub-forums from the directory at the top of the thread has disappeared, which I used a lot in the old forum.
Its missing a step.
Bonus gripe number 4.
This became apparent while writing this.
This freakin pop-up...
Every time I click out and then back into the text field, that pops up and if the positioning is just right, obscures what I'm writing. Maybe put that off to the right of the text field in the not insubstantial amount of white space that's there.
My major gripe is that we can no longer tell if another user is online or not looking at their posts. Also which forum they were browsing through at any time.
Which is a feature I subconsciously used to prioritize which threads to reply too and monitor a bit more attentively afterward. Just knowing if the thread was probably going to get a reply soon helped. Also the ability to determine where users are at any time was useful, if the thread creator was in some other section thats a hint to me as to what may be confusing them or if they were trying to pull together a rig by asking each forum what parts to get (obviously not very efficient and great potential for mixed messages).
2.
Although its great that as a registered Toms Hardware member, I can enjoy the forums ad-free, the fact that it is told to me by a banner ad is quite annoying :lol:
Then to almost add irony to it, the banner ad that says there are no ads invariably is advertising some portion of the Tom's website.
Would be great if that was removed or if there is an option to remove it, it be more apparent.
3.
Can no longer navigate to the sub-forum from within a thread.
Easiest example of this would be that I hang around the Water-Cooling sub-forum, which is inside the Overclocking forum. I don't interact much with the Overclocking forum at large, just sticking with the Water-cooling mainly. Its somewhat annoying that to go to a view of just the water-cooling topics I have to navigate back out to the main forum page, then back into water-cooling. The option to go to sub-forums from the directory at the top of the thread has disappeared, which I used a lot in the old forum.
Its missing a step.
Bonus gripe number 4.
This became apparent while writing this.
This freakin pop-up...
Every time I click out and then back into the text field, that pops up and if the positioning is just right, obscures what I'm writing. Maybe put that off to the right of the text field in the not insubstantial amount of white space that's there.