Old site vs. New Site

Oh my goodness. The site looks very plain, well it's clean but I dunno if there are still changes but right now still not contented. Still looking for more.

Anybody know any other good gaming forums to switch to? I don't see me sticking around much longer.

The site literally just launched, of course it's gonna be a bit slow and full of errors. Just give it some time.

I think the old site was better. I am getting numerous errors and this is the first time I've made it to the forums.

So far the old one was a lot better in pretty much every way. Even loaded faster by some miracle.

That's completely understandable.

But holy hell the UI is making my brain hurt. It's not easy to look at or navigate.

Hard to navigate

Don't like the layout

And can anyone find topic post history? (ie so we don't have to search the entire topic for our last read post?)

Anyone know if they're going to be adding boards back in? No PC Hardware section and no Sports section is really stupid.

I don't think it's that bad. Why is everyone so pissed?

Yeah, go to profile.

It's under both feed and the forum tab.

I'd prefer it be called post history. Calling it a forum tab doesn't make much sense. And it's just stupid the way they designed it.

Im all for a new look, but so many interesting features and other elements are gone. Its a bit too bare bones now and not so different from other sites any more

I'll give it one week before I make my judgement. Hopefully by then its a lot more stable and doesn't run like I'm browsing this place on my 3DS....

I know it's going to take a few days for the servers to get up to speed so the site will be sluggish and there will be some kinks and a getting used to it period and I can live with all of that.

However, the main feature of Gamespot's forums that kept me here (besides the community of course) was the unread counts and being able to click on them to jump right to the next unread post in a topic. I'll give them some time to bring that back, otherwise I'll be looking for a new forum to frequent.

I would give the new site about a month to be fully running.

I really hope it gets better fast. Right now it's super slow, hard to see where i've even been, and i'm not liking how in the forums, reading the posts starts too far on the left. I would prefer it a bit more indented.

I agree with this. This was one of the features that made the forums standout amongst the rest.

I agree with this guy.

BOO!!! Did this Spoiler work?

So the OP is visible at the top of every page of the thread??? Not sure how I feel about that...

I prefer the old site. It had a couple of things that made Gamespot stand out from the rest, and it was also much easier to navigate.

Hopefully, the site runs smoother and gets its bugs fixed very soon, so I can give it a proper try.

Easily the old site. This new one will take time to used to.

How the **** do you browse for games now? Legacy platforms and genres are completely gone, as is sort by score, you just see a clusterfuck of pages of every single game ever released. Even the "coming soon" tab just shows a clusterfuck of indie games nobody gives a shit about and they're not sorted by ANYTHING. Not to mention the site runs like shit now

The OP being on top of the page on every page is for poll posts only.

I mean, I appreciate everything that you're trying to do, but I loved having separate forums on the PC aspect, because games and hardware are two different things and it was nice having that separation. Great job on the aesthetics of the new website, but it's going to take some getting use to for sure. My only suggestion would be to bring back that hardware forum.

New site. Overall, it's much nicer, although they need to add a lot.

They need to bring back the pages under topics(and this would make the topic view look less cluttered, because it looks cluttered right now). Let us see someone's entire username under the avatar. Add back the unread posts count and the ability to see if there are new posts in a topic you posted in(boldface topic). And bring back the missing boards, such as PC Hardware and AV Hardware.

I'm honestly not sure at the moment. I mean, some things were better on the old site, like unions, UCBs and the Sports board, which I still can't find. The new one has buttons for embedding tweets and videos.

EDIT: It cut half my post. WTF?!

Ah, that's good to know. Still looks pretty odd though.

i'm getting lost in this site

Old. Everything here seems so cramped and smushed together

Old site was better, but I'm sure the new site will improve in time... not so great right now b/c it's on the fix.

The sports board was my favorite section. It better come back.

Right now, old. I still can't change my sig/avatar and I can't stand the quoting format here.

eewww...... The new gamespot forum looks horrid ...... change back to ancient format

Well considering it took like 5 min to get logged in. I can't customize avatars, it took another 2 min just to get to off-topic forums I'd say the old Gamespot is better by miles. How could they have worked so long on a new site and still failed this terribly?

I seen so many motherfawkin errors! If I see another one of them goddamn things!....

I cant change my avatar or sig..

I would image you will be able to once the glitches are ironed out. It'll probably take a few days.

I found that
It has my last post
But what about the ability to take me to my last read post from the topic?

Yeah me either!!

Here you go. Just too bad you can't post in it right now. :(

Easily the old site.

The new look is awful, new layout is confusing, we lost alot of features while not really gaining anything, etc.

Really this whole redesign is awful and was a terrible idea. Still can't believe they thought it kosher to just go and take away tons of stuff while not adding anything new. You don't take steps back like that...

New site is a lot better.

Navigating is easier, it's much less busy, video page doesn't break if you zoom in, videos don't keep playing forever, the review page is beautiful, and the site actually scales to mobile screens instead of having a broke-ass mobile site.

I don't know what you guys are complaining about. Then again, every redesign ever gets complaints. Same story with every single Gamespot redesign.

I second this.

I can see what they want with this new webpage design, but i think the old site is more clean and easier to navigate.

I didn't know that existed. Huh. I guess I can't miss it then.

The new site is counter-intuitive in terms of navigation. The forums (what really gets me coming back) are formatted terribly. Why the **** are they wasting a third of the screen on inane BS?

I dont mind the new one but I've noticed that alot of forums posts are missing.

Like I just posted a new question on AC3 forums and the entire thing is empty now.

Say it aint permanent....

It looks like they are having some serious server issued after the change over. I would imagine it will probably take a couple of days for everything to settle down and begin running correctly. I know in betas posts would disappear and then be back later. Hopefully it's all just server issues they are trying to deal with.

I can't be the only one annoyed that long usernames are cut off...

I'm going to give it some time before I decide if I like the new site or not

I like the neat and tidy look to this new site.

I'm having trouble changing my avatar and sorting my stacks but otherwise, it's looking pretty good to me.