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There is a very large blank space at the top with adblocking turned on, though of course you don't want to hear that ;) Looks good, tableless etc. There is a 1px border showing up on mouseovers in this forum that bumps everything on the page down by 1px: .highlight td { border-bottom: 1px solid #99CCFF !important } Is the theme released under GPL or is it only for Linux.com use?

Hi, Rich. Yes, the new Linux.com is also the new NewsForge.com. Same editorial staff and writers. Glad you like the new look, we're excited about it. Joe

Why when I try to visit newsforge.com am I redirected here? EDIT: Oops. My bad. It's supposed to be this way. :embarrassed: <!-- start: modules/comments/xartemplates/user-modifiedby.xd --> [Modified by: tr1pw1re on June 20, 2007 05:33 PM]<!-- end: modules/comments/xartemplates/user-modifiedby.xd -->

Bug #4 The preview pane shows my comment without the spaces I put between paragraphs. The preview does not display the post as it will appear on the forum.

It is unacceptably slow at the moment, our apologies. We are working like mad behind the scenes to rectify that. Thanks for your patience in the meantime. Joe Barr [Modified by: Dean Henrichsmeyer on June 21, 2007 07:16 PM]

This looks bad for all of Linux. I am disappointed that a site with this kind of performance is being viewed by the public. I have had complaints from a number of people I have recommended to switch to Linux about this site today. I can not defend the poor performance. Is there another way to troubleshoot this problem by leveraging your community without putting this poorly performing site online? Was there an Alpha/Beta test for this site with the Linux community ? or was this a hot cut over ? Sad today for Linux ...

Team, I have noticed a 50% improvement in screen load times vs earlier today. If you are tuning.... good progress !!!!! There is a difference between the load times for IE and Firefox. Interestingly, IE is loading the pages faster (20-40%) than Firefox. This is still twice as slow as the original site. If there are any specific tests or timings you need run, please let me know. Keep plugging.....[b]

The Good: It now looks like a real destination web site rather than a collection of links someone put somewhere. The Bad: The light blue highlighting that follows ones mouse is very annoying. (very)

[quote=noldrin]The Bad: The light blue highlighting that follows ones mouse is very annoying. (very)[/quote] I second that. it's extremely annoying. Makes me think that if I click, something will happen. <!-- start: modules/comments/xartemplates/user-modifiedby.xd --> [Modified by: John Varouhakis on June 21, 2007 06:57 PM]<!-- end: modules/comments/xartemplates/user-modifiedby.xd -->

Hi, 1. I prefer the old setup, as the layout's less in-your-face than the new one; permitting more textual information / skimming more news items at a glance. Also the visual weighting of the features vs the raw newsvac worked quite nicely. Now news around the web's nearly half the width of the text area; font far too large, only headlines visible for 2nd and later items. As for the feature text - even this seems to offer maybe half as much information as before; maybe because the 'stylish nav menu' is too wide. Navigation column: far too wide, too heavy visual borders, font far too large (remember: people rarely try to read much text in the nav column, so it doesn't matter if they squint for a second, as long as they don't have to squint for the main textual content, i.e. the features). Tweaking font sizes, table cell width or allowing users to select a css-style via cookies or whatever might solve most of the points above. [firefox 2.04; ancient linux box rather old gtk/... installations] 2. The current setup via linux.com seems slower than the old via newsforge (?!) 3. And a non-code problem: Fearing a possible change of topics and definitely the perception of a far more restricted scope I'd kind of considered newsforge a one-stop point for news on free unix, from linux to bsd, opensolaris to more interesting stuff like minix3, plan9 or hurd. With a flavouring about new non-intel hardware and a peek once in a while at larger changes to commercial unices software or hardware, from OS x (ok...) to Solaris, AIX and maybe even HP-UX. Given the switch in the hostname, I see some possible problem with community generated content for non-linux topics. And given the hostname, if such content is NOT 100% linux specific (say Lawrence Lessig's change in research topic), I can easily imagine non-community people now saying: "oh that's just a special interest linux resource, but I'm not a geek, I won't read it even if people-in-the-know try to point me to important articles on linux.com." IMHO Newsforge's name being more neutral was an advantage. cu Peter