Tuesday, April 12th 2016

Presenting the New TechPowerUp

Welcome to the new TechPowerUp! The new 2016 refresh sees a combination of faster site performance, with a contemporary new design that retains our signature layout, and improves it with a new, eye-pleasing, and extremely readable font; usability improvements for our main content areas such as the front-page, reviews, case-mod gallery, and downloads.

The site-engine has been heavily improved to work better with mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and narrow screens in general. The engine now intelligently rearranges elements on the site to make it more usable with touchscreens, and give you a fully functional experience even on your mobile. The Forums software has also been recently updated, and now supports 2-step verification using Google Authenticator rolling-code. Tell us what you think in the comments section!
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113 Comments on Presenting the New TechPowerUp

#51
Liquid Cool
I'm on Firefox...the font that is used on the right for New Posts....too blurry to read with my poor eyesight.

Best,

Liquid Cool
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#52
theonedub
habe fidem
W1zzardWorks for me on iPhone, how is it messed up?
On Android 5.1.1 it is only listing 'today's reviews' and no other news stories. Hit 'load more' or refresh and only get yesterday's Reviews.
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#54
NightOfChrist
Congratulations on releasing the new design and layout. I have no problem with the font. Actually I like it, but I was wondering why all of sudden the font changed. I thought it was just misconfiguration on my end. Chrome and my other browsers use Japanese language and fonts as default so there might be conflicts in rendering website encoded in different language. But fortunately it is not. Once again, congratulations. And I hope the ads featured on this site are not changed. I like hardware ads in this site and they are not intrusive, especially from Seasonic.
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#55
natr0n
no complaints
:toast:
o_O
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#57
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
the font still looks weird to me on the front pages.


I'm using a 46" HDTV which is not common, but the forum text is nice and clear while the front page aliases and goes fuzzy.
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#58
cadaveca
My name is Dave
Looks great on my 3008WFP (2560x1600), and my Surface Pro 3, both using Edge. Using Chrome, it looks horrible on the 3008WFP.
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#59
robert3892
Your android app isn't working properly since you made the changes
axis007@W1zzard this is the app for me on htc m9 stock andriod fyi
I've got the same thing....
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#60
Soxism
Another person for Font change please.

Its terrible for scale and read ability on a desktop. If the monitor is even slightly away from the user.
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#61
bonomork
it looks good but soften font
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#63
Ubersonic
Is there an option to use the old version? the new font looks bad :(

*EDIT*

Yeah, change that bad to unreadable. I just tried to read an article and had to give up and C&P it into Notepad because it was giving me eye strain >.>
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#64
BiggieShady
@W1zzard
Font antialiasing/smoothing have some obvious different default settings in Firefox and Chrome.
Maybe it's time to experiment with some of these css properties:

body {
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; // or subpixel-antialiased
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}

Edit: Hmm, seems they don't support these anymore, so best you can do to improve readability in chrome is:

body {
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility !important;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.004); // almost invisible shadow in an attempt to improve antialiasing
}
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#65
trog100
Easy Rhinoi wouldnt have noticed unless it was pointed out.
same here.. Here..

trog
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#67
Dagna
2SV with email confirmation is not working
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#68
AlienIsGOD
Vanguard Beta Tester
woot! 2 step verification for forums :D :lovetpu:
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#69
95Viper
My fonts changed in the forum. Looks terrible.
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#71
Rivage
Review Database's Browse button did not work.
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#72
newbsandwich
Didn't get to read all the comments, but the new looks sucks to work with when not in full screen, ie snapped to the side of the screen. Other than that, looks good, just please fix the crowding and make it similar to what was before please.
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#73
W1zzard
RivageReview Database's Browse button did not work.
Fixed, thanks
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#74
Rivage
W1zzardFixed, thanks
Thank you, W1zzard!

TPU Review Database it's very useful and awesome feature! I browse it everyday!
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