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I am tired of clicking the "read more" links to read a quarter of the details of each article and clicking on each photo to enlarge for the remaining quarter. This webpage format is better suited to a personal blog versus a news site.
It takes me a total of ten minutes to browse Tom's Hardware's most recent articles versus the five that it used to take. This may be a good tactic to take in terms of advertisement revenue but it is beginning to be a waste of my limited morning reading time.
Please retain the function of a news website by keeping the text in paragraph form spanning the length of a comfortable scroll inside a webpage and keeping the graphics sized appropriately. It is a difficult job to properly integrate graphics but the slideshow format is definitely not the best option.
It takes me a total of ten minutes to browse Tom's Hardware's most recent articles versus the five that it used to take. This may be a good tactic to take in terms of advertisement revenue but it is beginning to be a waste of my limited morning reading time.
Please retain the function of a news website by keeping the text in paragraph form spanning the length of a comfortable scroll inside a webpage and keeping the graphics sized appropriately. It is a difficult job to properly integrate graphics but the slideshow format is definitely not the best option.
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WOW! I am appalled the amount of people not wanting to click, freaking lazy! I enjoyed the pictures as the comedy relief of the article. On the note of having to click "Read More" you are using Firefox aren't you? In IE9 you don't have to click it but once. They automatically populate after the first time doing it. Great article toms, I immediately saw a difference after playing with the antennas on my router from the polarization section of your article...that being said, I still can't comment using IE9 haha
I agree the "Read More" links were a bit nonsensical. Although I'm not sure why so many people are complaining that they had to click them every time. I just had to expand it the first time and then it remembered my choice on subsequent slides.
Regarding the 27 slides... I don't mind the pictures at all, and in some cases they did actually help visualize what was being described. That said, I felt like I was being smacked in the face with your attempt to increase page hits with all the click throughs. Fewer pages with more content would be much appreciated.
Regarding the 27 slides... I don't mind the pictures at all, and in some cases they did actually help visualize what was being described. That said, I felt like I was being smacked in the face with your attempt to increase page hits with all the click throughs. Fewer pages with more content would be much appreciated.
THIS IA A LAME FORMAT and not part of the REAL WORLD! Forget Maximizing advertising exposure... you will loose readers and visitors with this format for profit!
I read and very much enjoyed this article. I had no problem with the 27 pages; it is a well drafted presentation with slides that backing up the content of the text. Excellent.
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Not very funny for an Aprils fool day joke . but ... its July ?! OK now seriously , this is not MSNs wonderwall . and as website designer/developer myself , the time for slide-show articles has long been gone . Sure it's beneficial to you , our average visit/stay time at the site increases and that's good for the site from a business point of view , but definitely not for people who wasted the time . Same goes for that weird read less / read more thingy .
I have no idea what you were thinking Anand about this article layout, but it either is a iq test, which I fail; or, simply a comoplete coding failure. I suspect it's a combination of the latter and IE 9.
Standards exist for a reason, usually aacrificing the fantastic possibilities of what could be for the more mundane and useful reality of actually working.
Your articles text doesn't not diskplay beyond the first few paragraphs. I am very interested in the why, but that part of the text seems to be unavailable, and I do not care to reverse engineer what should be something that's intuitive. You have a strip of pictures, which do not diskplay when I click on them, and couldn't care less because it's the text that's really going to deliver the imformation you, in theory, meant to convey. In an ever increasingly technical world, seems more and more tech support is required simply to use what should simply work. If this is what updating your webpage means, go back to what you were using a year ago and live with it.
Standards exist for a reason, usually aacrificing the fantastic possibilities of what could be for the more mundane and useful reality of actually working.
Your articles text doesn't not diskplay beyond the first few paragraphs. I am very interested in the why, but that part of the text seems to be unavailable, and I do not care to reverse engineer what should be something that's intuitive. You have a strip of pictures, which do not diskplay when I click on them, and couldn't care less because it's the text that's really going to deliver the imformation you, in theory, meant to convey. In an ever increasingly technical world, seems more and more tech support is required simply to use what should simply work. If this is what updating your webpage means, go back to what you were using a year ago and live with it.
This is why I have Cat 5e and Cat 6 running in our apartment unit using Netgear managed enterprise switches. We have 802.11n for one laptop. Gaming consoles all on Ethernet, not Wi-Fi. Netflix runs with out a hiccup.
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honestly, i was enjoying this article, but when i got to page 8, i decided that i had enough of all the clicking and waiting for the next page to load. why can't you have an option to read articles like this in a single-page format? then i only have to wait for the page to load one time. many other sites offer this option.
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honestly, i was enjoying this article, but when i got to page 8, i decided that i had enough of all the clicking and waiting for the next page to load. why can't you have an option to read articles like this in a single-page format? then i only have to wait for the page to load one time. many other sites offer this option.
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honestly, i was enjoying this article, but when i got to page 8, i decided that i had enough of all the clicking and waiting for the next page to load. why can't you have an option to read articles like this in a single-page format? then i only have to wait for the page to load one time. many other sites offer this option.
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that was pretty annoying too. your site kept telling me that i had to enter an additional piece of information to post my comment, and when it finally ran out of things to ask for, it posted my comment multiple times. whoever designed this site needs to refresh their skills.
Tom's Hardware is funded by advertising. The more page views you do, the more ads they display, the more money they make. If it's click-through's they're selling, the more pages they display, the more likely you'll see an ad you want click on, the more they get paid. It's all about the money, not what's easiest for the reader.
HOWEVER: TH is free to us readers. It costs money to buy hardware to test and pay engineers to test them. If TH is choosing between having to charge to read articles and having to find creative ways to show more ads per article, I'm OK with what they have to do to keep it free. As long as they're all not driving Porches. If you're all getting rich, send a little love by giving us an "entire article" page with as many ads as it needs.
HOWEVER: TH is free to us readers. It costs money to buy hardware to test and pay engineers to test them. If TH is choosing between having to charge to read articles and having to find creative ways to show more ads per article, I'm OK with what they have to do to keep it free. As long as they're all not driving Porches. If you're all getting rich, send a little love by giving us an "entire article" page with as many ads as it needs.
it's a pain in the a.. to read this article. to make it worse, half of each page is filled with useless examples...horrible...tomshardware has lost his way...I want the old Tom back!!!
Wow... a lot of hostility over formatting. Yeah, it's not ideal, but just mention it as a kind suggestion and move on. Don't get so wigged out.
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