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

#76
Rivage
Tsukiyomi91woohoo~!!! TPU V2.0 FTW!! =D
At least TPU V3.0 as i can see :)
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#77
BiggieShady
95ViperMy fonts changed in the forum. Looks terrible.
Yeah, all the fonts from tpu cdn, like for example tpucdn.com/css/fonts/opensans-regular-webfont-v1.woff return "x" as a response :confused:

Also, in my case, in Firefox fonts in forums seemed fine at first ... but only because fonts were cached so to reproduce press Ctrl+F5
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#78
Azumay
Nice update.

Font is a little small or weak, but I can deal with it.
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#79
W1zzard
Fonts have been made crisper now
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#80
Azumay
Maybe I should clean my glasses.....lol.

Oh yeah it is crisper.
lol
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#81
Octopuss
Oh there is a thread about this.
My opinion: it looks like shit. The site is less readable, flat as hell, the colours are really bad. IF IT WORKS, DON'T FIX IT. Seriously, what was wrong with the old style? Next you can make it into that fucking Google material design.
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#82
W1zzard
Octopussthe colours are really bad
The colors are mostly unchanged
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#83
Octopuss
No, previously there was at least a touch od blue, and article titles were in rather nice blue shade, whereas now everything is pretty much gray and white.
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#84
Octopuss
Oh btw, a reminder for anyone who hasn't noticed: the RSS url changed a little bit.
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#85
W1zzard
OctopussOh btw, a reminder for anyone who hasn't noticed: the RSS url changed a little bit.
Indeed, the original RSS URL now has a list of three feeds:

www.techpowerup.com/rss/
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#86
trog100
W1zzardIndeed, the original RSS URL now has a list of three feeds:

www.techpowerup.com/rss/
some of the comments in this thread puzzle me a little..

i have looked at the site on my little 12 inch laptop and my main system.. to be honest i would not have noticed the changes without being told they had been done..

it all looked okay before and it still looks okay.. i am using the chrome browser..

are we all seeing the same thing.. it seems not.. he he

trog
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#87
SK-1
trog100some of the comments in this thread puzzle me a little..

i have looked at the site on my little 12 inch laptop and my main system.. to be honest i would not have noticed the changes without being told they had been done..

it all looked okay before and it still looks okay.. i am using the chrome browser..

are we all seeing the same thing.. it seems not.. he he

trog
Really? Im not surprised. This place has it's fair share of anal retentive ,OCD, condescending know it all's.
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#89
Liquid Cool
Font seems better now(Firefox). I'm on my HP Probook 455...and I'm no longer seeing double vision....:).

Don't know what you did...but it does look better.

Best,

Liquid Cool
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#90
mstenholm
DarkTigerChange font please...
+1 This light font is not good for me. In fact after one day with it I notices that I used a lot less time on TPU. Please go back to what ever font used before.
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#91
mstenholm
Liquid CoolFont seems better now(Firefox). I'm on my HP Probook 455...and I'm no longer seeing double vision....:).

Don't know what you did...but it does look better.

Best,

Liquid Cool
My Firefox frontpage is still in this semi transparent font. Forums is and was OK.I hope that I don't have to re-calibrate my monitor to read TPU. In that case TPU will lose.
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#92
Liquid Cool
Hmm...I was going to suggest clearing the cache, closing Firefox and re-opening....but....I haven't done that in days myself. All I know is, I was seeing the same semi-transparent, doubled appearing garbled text that you are/we're...and now it appears clearer. I wouldn't call it ideal in the least, but at least it's semi legible.

The rest of the site "sans the right side of the main page" looks/looked great.

Best,

Liquid Cool
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#93
AlienIsGOD
Vanguard Beta Tester
Chrome text is sharper, didn't notice it overly til w1zzard said it as fixed :p
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#94
CiTay
Can you please make the visual difference between unvisited and visited links more apparent? The colors are quite similar at the moment, so it's hard to see which links i've already visited. Since TPU is not the only site i browse, naturally. So several reviews that are linked here i've already read, and i would like to see which ones. With the old design it was easier to see. Many thanks.
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#95
Vancha
I'll get used to the new font regardless, but I'd say it's objectively less readable than the old one. I feel like my eyes are trying to focus on something it thinks is out of focus...It reminds me of going from "sharp" to "smooth" in the anti-aliasing settings of text in Photoshop.

Edit: I don't know whether the forum simply hasn't been changed yet or whether I'm just not seeing the changes due to cache or whatever, but going from reading the comments under the article to reading the comments directly in the forum thread is actually such an improvement.

i.imgur.com/2BlgEyp.png
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#96
FishHead69
axis007@W1zzard this is the app for me on htc m9 stock andriod fyi
This is how I am seeing the front new's page as well on 2 different android devices
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#97
ShurikN
The font is clearly better now. Thanks
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#98
jboydgolfer
Tpu "eyes failing with old age" edition
:roll::roll::clap::lovetpu:
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#99
chaotic_uk
it looks cluttered (sorry) from the pics , it looked better before the last change and does not improve anything in my opinion (sorry)
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#100
Ruru
S.T.A.R.S.
Looks good, needs nothing more to say. :)
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