TorrentFreak Looks Different Today…

After years of hard work we decided to go for a new look here at TorrentFreak. Today we’re presenting you TorrentFreak version 5, the first real update of our design in 4 years. There will be plenty of bugs and complaints, so please bear with us.

We have to admit that we don’t like change much here at TorrentFreak. For years we’ve used the same WordPress theme which in 2006 was far ahead of its time, but eventually even we had to cave in and come up with a new design that’s more in line with today’s standards.

With help from the excellent designer Ryan we are now ready to present our new look. It’s totally different from our previous theme, but hopefully recognizable enough for regular readers to feel at home.

In the process we implemented a few changes that will eventually liven up things a bit here. Below are two of the most significant.

1. We now support comment replies.

2. We have a “news bits” section where we will post links to things we’re not covering ourselves. You might even find some of our random musings here, so keep checking back.

We hope that the news bits section will be a useful collection of links, and a good place to discuss topics that are not featured in full TorrentFreak articles. The news bits are excluded from our main RSS feed but you can subscribe to these links through this feed.

We always welcome tips from readers and if you’re a real BitTorrent/P2P/copyright news addict who can contribute on a regular basis, feel free to get in touch with us.

Also, we realize that there might be a few bugs here and there, so please let us know if you spot one, preferably in a descriptive email.

Update: Here’s some stuff we’ll address in the coming days, aside from a few small bugs we will fix soon.

* Next / previous article links will return
* Header will be a bit smaller
* RSS feed should exclude news bits

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Looks awesome

Great job, I love it!
- Stormer
  
  Not big on the pink…Kinda feel like the next post will be abut fashion or make-up. :)
  - Lothor The Evil
    
    I don’t much care for the pink either. But finally we can reply to a comment. Now we just need a report spam and report flaming button.
    - Anonymous
      
      Report spam button, yes. But flamers are fun, they provide for good amusement. Flaming is a big part of comment sections and forums.
    - Sesame1
      
      How about a rate the comment button that way if the flamer or troll has a funny comment or we think they are lame we can thumbs up or thumbs down the comment +10 gets a star & -10 gets a loser smiley and is hidden…
      
      You know it makes sense :)
    - Anonymous
      
      id go with the mix of report/+funny/+thoughtful/+derp! as the reporting options but thats just me…
    - Anonymous
      
      Good to now that it wasn’t only me who thought it a little bit gay, but it is really good, it feels modern and more accessible, and remained the clean style. And yes, the top is a bit too big….
  - Freaky
    
    TorrentPink.com rename? You kinda overdid the pink there!
  - Yayreplybutton
    
    Fix with this if you use Stylish in Firefox or Stylist in Chrome, or just plain CSS in Opera should work too:
    
    http://userstyles.org/styles/23309
- Anonymous
  
  1. Dislike the placement of “”FeaturedNews”" as the first main link.
  even tho you can close it… it’s too imposing.
  Personally feel it should be in the sidebar..above most discussed.
  Great for new visitors @ torrentfreak.com homepage , but new visitors are most likely to arrive via a link to an article.
  Regular users , like myself will just find it annoying.
  
  2. Like , “”CopyQuote”".. maybe even use a users comment if its good enough ?
  
  3. Dislike the background colour of “”MostDiscussed”".
  I find the text , harder to read on the brown background , the contrast is not big enough.
  …test it… select a text link in “”MostDiscussed”" , highlight it , so the background is now blue around the text.
  look at how much easier it is to read compared to the brown background.
  My eyes are pretty much perfect , so anyone with poorer vision would be even less able to view.
  
  4. Like the “”Reply”" comment.
  
  5. Dislike extremely.. search box… black , so you cant even see it on the background…
  with grey letters as input… NO/low contrast between the text and background.
  
  6. Dislike the text format in the DropDown “Categories”".
  The letters seem hard to read , could be that the text is all “bold” or the font doesn’t view well at that size..so needs to be bigger. Could be the letter spacing ect… I think it’s a mixture.
  
  7. Dislike the “”Random Links”". Again contrast being the reason.
  Grey text on a black background , may look nice on the monitor of “”who”" created the design.. BUT not everyone on the interwebz will have their monitor with exactlly the same brightness, contrast ect…
  
  ..
  
  Overall I like the updates to the site..
  
  However the “”Usability”" and “”access”" has issues.
  Changing a few minor things.. font attributes , contrast between txt and background would greatly improve this.
  
  eg.. “”Access & Usability”" …
  someone with low contrast eyesight could NOT use the search function at all.
  http://www.allaboutvision.com/eye-exam/contrast-sensitivity.htm
  Someone with poor overall vision could not make out the txt in the DropDown menu.
  
  People with different monitor display settings , may not be able to view the very low contrast aspects of the site.
  
  .
  
  I hope my comments are found to be usefull.
- I Hate It
  
  But he’s a fix if you use Stylish in Firefox or Stylist in Chrome, or just plain CSS in Opera should work too:
  
  http://userstyles.org/styles/23309
- Rsomer1
  
  I agree. I thought I was on the wrong site at first. I had to come here twice before I realized that I was in the right place. Good job.
Blackplan

Shiney. Can’t say I’m a fan of the moving dates though. Little bit disorientating.
- Flashturbator
  
  Agreed. What is the purpose of the moving dates?
  It just seems like a show-offy type feature which serves no useful purpose… other than distracting people.
- Pegart
  
  What moving dates? :O
  - huh?
    
    I tried three different browsers but still haven’t seen any moving dates. I feel cheated. I wanna see the moving dates; they sound cool!
    - prune
      
      Yeah.. no idea what they’re talking about, what moving dates.
    - Garh
      
      They have been disabled… hopefully.
Juo

Looks great guys!
Toast

Really nice look guys but… you might wanna expand your subheader to that it says The place where breaking news, P2P and copyright collide

instead of just Torrent since there has been a lot of other posts that aren’t torrent related

Regards Toast
http://www.adcportal.com
p2pfreakkk

Whoaaaa Ernesto !!! :D

I just refreshed my page and saw this…. Thanks for the change and the hard-work of the team ( incl Ryan )… looks different and so far so good.

Will get to know as I surf more of the site’s features. Nice to see things changing in the New Year … Congrats !!!
bo

I loved it. You guys are amazing.
Anonymous

Er, guys, are your articles still under Creative Commons By-Sa? This free culture licensing seems to have just disappeared. Hope you’ll keep it and it’s just a glitch due to the transition.
- http://torrentfreak.com Ernesto
  
  Yeah, we’ll put this somewhere, thanks for mentioning it!
Anonymous

It’s good because it looks simple and nice at same time.
notes: favicon is loading a bit slow and you could improve comments font.
Congrats!
- Anonymous
  
  *testing reply*
  - Anonymous
    
    And yeah Reply function is great.
    - jook
      
      agreed, i like it, i just totally replied to your reply and now we can read each others reply and maybe reply to those past replies via the new reply feature.
foobar

header is a litte too big, imho

nice colors, though
- andrew
  
  I have to agree… 260px is rather tall for a header. On my netbook you actually see more header than content when you load the page. I do think it would look nice if it just lost some of the height.
  
  Other than that, it’s still a little buggy (my submit button for this comment has no text in it, and when I moused over it, it shrank).
  - Anonymous
    
    i second that
    - A
      
      Me too
    - Johnny
      
      Me three.
      
      BTW Can’t nest comments beyond 3 levels…?
  - big header
    
    Make it much much smaller, not just a bit please.
  - pooreyes
    
    Way too much header vs content uses most of my screen. Pink is garish, please tone it down a bit.
    
    Otherwise, pretty good.
akarave

Excellent.
But as said above, rotating date tend to confuse people. Or is static element too 90′s? :)
OK

Good look. Keep up the important work.
Sieben

Very good look :)
Pablini

Don’t really like it :s
Too bright, and pink :P
MeH

It’s good, the only part I personally don’t like is the little pink bar across the top, otherwise nice new theme! :)

MeH
Mayhem excites Hell
Renwallz

The only complaint I have is there is no Previous / Next Article links (that I can find, anyway). Otherwise, keep up the good work!
J

Bit too pink, comment replies should be less indented (3rd reply is far too far in) and the header’s a bit too thick.

Otherwise a nice refresh, now it doesn’t look like one of the dark parts of the internet :)
MM99

Awesome…really love this new one!
You’ve reminded of when I shifted from 98 to XP and everything looked so NEAT!!!
Yohan Perera

Hmmmmm…. Not much of a change here… Same colors… only the header is changed…
john

don’t like it, wont be visiting this site anymore.
- Clarrymay
  
  Second that. Hate the new look. deleting this page from my daily bookmarks.
  - Anonymous
    
    So you don’t visit the site because of content, but because of how it looks?
    
    Geniuses
    - Anonymous
      
      I guess it was the proverbial nail in the coffin after the Apple/VLC article.
    - Con
      
      For me not so much the new theme it’s the fact I have to click on “Read more” to see a whole article. Too much of a pain on my phone.. Sorry.
Anonymous

Good update, colors fine, I agree header is too large. Takes up 1/3 of screen.
SC

Very good redesign. I agree on the date circle being somewhat annoying, and the very slow fade effect on submenus isn’t very user-friendly. Otherwise, great job.
- J
  
  In addition, on linux/firefox the submenus don’t work at all, they keep looping and when you go to the submenu it just dissapears. plz fix
Peter_Pan

“The news bits are excluded from our main RSS feed but you can subscribe to these links through this feed.”

Not if the main feed still is http://feed.torrentfreak.com/Torrentfreak

Getting the ‘bits’ in that feed too.

TF: Yes, thanks for pointing this out. We’re working on a fix
- Anonymous
  
  Ah, and I was worried there for a bit that you might change to teaser-only feeds.
  
  Otherwise, great job!
Momo

I’m loving the new design. It’s been a long time coming.
Tom

Not a fan of this.
jamlc1m

the old rss feed seems to have the ‘bit’ articles as well. is that a glitch?

TF: Yes, we’re working on a fix. Thanks
- jamlc1m
  
  thanks. the design looks great though :)
BIOS

Love the reply system. This will make hot debates easy to follow :D

My only complaint is the fuzziness of the dates on my monitor, but its totally perfect if I just “Ctrl+=” once (magnify). All in all, great skin :D
Anonymous

I feel like I have not enough space to read.. and the white is all over it — which makes it annoying to read.

I guess I’ll get used to it.

But it’s good you decided to re-invent yourselves :D
- Anonymous
  
  I agree, if you really start reading comments it is very white. And reply test
- Info
  
  Hear hear
Jonston

Banner at the top is way too big. OK otherwise.
Josh

I miss the “next article” “previous article” links at the bottom of each story… don’t like having to hit back to get to a new story (unless I just haven’t been able to find these links yet).
Anonymous

It appears that each page is displaying a max of 50 comments and i am unable to find a link to see the rest?… Hopefully i’m not going blind or something hahaha
Anonymous

I like it. Something about the top of the page that bothers me, design ways. Not sure what it is yet. It might be the position of the search bar.
Peter Kleissner

I used to read TF a lot from my mobile, let’s hope it works out there good. Though I really was a fan of the simple template. All the best wishes for this new style.
- Alastair
  
  I download my feeds for my phone and don’t want to be loading full-screen pages while reading news in transit. Unless we’re given the full-text articles feed again, I believe I’ll be moving on. =(
  
  Either moving on or providing a scraping service for a Pirate RSS Feed haha. Up to you guys.
anon

…

well i’m done with torrentfreak. new layout looks like shit. =D!
peterjensen

bare? bear!

Enigmax: Sorry, I do apologize. I was making a tiny edit to Ernesto’s original post (which was correct – bear) and a plug in I use ‘autocorrected’ incorrectly. Fixed :)
- Drake3
  
  I like the how the official TF, Enigmax, and Ernesto comments are more trustworthy now. Before I couldn’t be sure if someone added a TF comment to the end of their comment or not.
  
  Also I like being able to reply to a comment without using @54 peterjensen. :)
nexen

Too much contrast between header and body.
The pink top bar is grating. It serves no purpose.
Header is too big.

The old layout felt more professional. This one seems a step backwards.

Ever hear of anti-aliasing for buttons and various screen elements?
- jcs
  
  I too hate the aliasing. I thought maybe it was just my outdated 1024×768 monitor.
Grok

I agree that the new header is outrageously large, especially when the content within it is small and can be easily condensed. Another thing to fix would be to allow more space for articles and comments and less for the fluff on the sides like the most discussed articles and the left edge of the screen of absolutely BLANK space. The article’s text and comments sections take up only half of my monitor’s width, which looks simply ridiculous, and I can only imagine how horrible it must look on a netbook or laptop.

I’m quite familiar with design, so please don’t just brush aside my comment on the matter.

You also ask us to “bare” with you, but you mean we should “bear” with you. I see a lot of little bothersome errors like this that kind of detract from the content by being a stick in the mud. (I’m willing to be an editor for free.)
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fix yo new layout brah :P
Sam

“There will be plenty of bugs and complaints, so please bare with us.” Yeah, your spelling is a bit off.
Fei

Well, the header looks fine. The subheader with the searchengine is more than a little obnoxious due to the size. You might consider shrinking it down to a more reasonable size. Furthermore, your Featured News article shouldn’t take priority over your Latest News article. Put it on a smaller frame off to the side IMO like you have with MostDiscussed, CopyQuote, etc…
that

Nice update. However, it’s neither netbook friendly — header is way too tall — nor fully Opera compatible — the “MostDiscussed” seaction is unreadable http://oi56.tinypic.com/1zee7hi.jpg/
- that
  
  oh, i take back the Opera incompatibility thing… i disabled Opera’s “Content Blocking” and now “Most Discussed” looks fine.
dilo

Where is torrentfreak ? I am freaking out , don’t like change . bring back torrent freak else i sue somebody !
Anonymous

Very nice design, I’m usually put off by sites suddenly changing design, but this is very good!!
Daniel

I’m really impressed with a functional design like this that still manages to portray the torrentfreak personality I’ve come to love since the classic colours of white/black/pink have remained.

The only thing that really bugs me is the featured news that always reappears! Using a x1080 screen resolution I can only barely make out the two most recent news below the featured item.

With your old design there was never any need to scroll down for more and that’s my only criticism on your new design. Maybe you can add a cookie that saves the featured news status so it doesn’t automatically display that one over and over again or so that it at least stays hidden until you change the featured item.
Daniel

@ 46 : I’m using Opera 11 and the page is displayed fine.

The only differences between Opera and Firefox are either intentional like the round versus square date/comments buttons or a minor error like the search button that is a bit out of place on Opera.
- Anonymous
  
  Use the Reply button, noob.
Fatty112

Looks Great but you might want to take a look at the search button ;)
- Fatty112
  
  ^^ Using Google Chrome on Mac Book Air 11″with screen resolutions 1366×768.
New_World_Man

Nice new design,clean and nice to watch!

Keep up the good job guys!
townie2

nice work guys, fresh, bright, and easier to maneuver around to related stories, i like it very much. now, when is a new episode of TorrentFreak TV coming out?
lostinlodos

LOL:
I agree; I’m not fond of change. 15 Years ago “text box news” (same Idea as this comment field, for the whole news page), was ahead of its time.

Far as I’m concerned; that was the best point of internet news-site design and everything that came after was a downfall.

Pretty tricks only detract from your quality writing and I believe you should focus on that.
Who cares what the site looks like; if it’s good news; they’ll come!

BTW; I have colours, enhancements, scripts and all other crap turned OFF in my FireFox. So anything beyond the layout I can’t see. Plane, text, straight forward and simple!
Just the way I like it.
xyz

Ok, but why pink ? it broken style completely, it looks like blog of 13 old girl

change pink to sth different, please
- FredFlinstone
  
  I agree. The pink is rather “gay”.
me

Yes, the header is definitely too big. The rest is beautiful.
Anonymous

Personally, I think the old version was better but…

We will see if I can stand this site in due time or I will be forced to delete it from my daily bookmarks.
Jonesy

I don’t like the Featured News thing. If that stays then I guess I’ll have to add torrentfreak to my rss reader instead of visiting the site. I don’t want to have to scroll down to see if there are new stories every time I visit the page.
In fact I think I’ll have to do the rss thing even if the Featured news are removed. I am visually impaired, I need to zoom my text a lot, with the header that big I’ll have to scroll down anyway to read the first article.
New design doesn’t seem to cater well to visually impaired users. But I guess you can’t expect that.
lostinlodos

LOL:
I agree; I’m not fond of change. 15 Years ago “text box news” (same Idea as this comment field, for the whole news page), was ahead of its time.

Far as I’m concerned; that was the best point of internet news-site design and everything that came after was a downfall.

Pretty tricks only detract from your quality writing and I believe you should focus on that.
Who cares what the site looks like; if it’s good news; they’ll come!

BTW; I have colours, enhancements, scripts and all other crap turned OFF in my FireFox. So anything beyond the layout I can’t see. Plain, text, straight forward and simple!
Just the way I like it.
-

Yep. Halve it at least.
Anonymous

Too much white for sure… i have to dim my screen to be able to read the articles properly…

+ the header takes half of my laptop screen :/
pan

The overall design is fantastic, but there are a few little things that could be improved, and I’m only here to echo them:

- The rotating dates are distracting. I could see how they might serve a purpose, but the distraction makes you forget about the purpose they serve cause you’re busy ‘dancing’ with thtme.

- The hover/link fade is a very nice touch, but I could see how it can create bugs in different browsers or cause a problem for slower computers.

- The next/previous article links are gone. I think this is a CRITICAL thing you guys need to add because it adds convenience for readers.

As for the header: Readers, it’s 2011. Most people who are using torrents– and beyond that, keeping up-to-date with torrent-related news– should have a decent computer that has a high enough resolution so the header’s not “too big”. I don’t see it as a problem, I think it’s nice.
-

ABSOLUTELY agree that the part containing actual article text is FAR too small. Come on, it’s exactly what I came here for yet it takes less than half of mighty 1280 pixels that my screen does.
This thing totally, totally sucks.
NoCanDo

Too much pink.

Me no likey.
-

+1
asdf

Too much pink
hero

Man the good design looks awesome. Keep up the good work!
Someone

Otherwise good, but the top banner section is too big, and the cardboard-looking, rotating date images are ugly and make the front page laggy.

Also, in the comment section, “Your email address will not be published.”, of course it won’t be as you don’t even ask for it. :p
Evan

Switch to Disqus for comments!
-

I could really use some way to get rid of featured articles, recommended articles, most discussed articles and other crap like this.
Come on, I at least skim through all articles and know what I want to read w/out them. The only thing they do is waste almost all screen space. As I load the page in 1280×1024, the rubbish takes roughly 90% of it. The mighty 10% is enough for 1 article header + 3 sentences. OK, As I scroll down, it’s not as bad and text that matters takes whooping 1/3 of the next screen. Estimation of whole front page: 18% is useful, 72% is rubbish.

Come on guys, do something about it, previous layout wasn’t any good, but I haven’t seem many as crappy as the current one and I’ve seen a lot.
Deville

I liked the old design a little better, it looked friendlier, somehow… Just my opinion.
Phoenix

nice..keep the change ;)
Me3

HEY I CAN’T READ YOUR FEED IN FULL FROM RSS FEED ON GOOGLE READER!!!!! COME ON! THAT’S NOT FAIR!
SomeGuy

Ether I have been redirected to one of save the boobies foundations or entered a gay club lol…

(Joking referance to the pinkness)

Backs outa the room slowly…
Pickles

Can’t get it to load in my old firefox 3.5.11.
Guess it’s me and I need to update.
Rob

I’ve got to agree with others who say this new look needs work. Initial impressions:

* Some pink elements are too distracting. I find my eye being drawn to the non-content parts of the screen, such as staring at the ‘search’ button and the pink comment balloons on the right side.

* The rotating dates are confusing and distracting.

* The sub-menu fade in is very slow.

* Breaking news into “featured news” and “latest news” can be confusing, because the featured news is older than the story below it.

* The header is a touch on the tall side.

* I can’t see all the comments. This story currently says there are 83 comments, but I can only see 63.
kuru

and the 50+ commenters (strangely, 63 here) have no voice???
anonymous2

looks great guys :) i love the site, and u will only be more important as governments like tunisia, belarus, and america continue to clamp down on free speech and thought, i cant wait to see torrent freak take its place among some of the bigger players, we need u!
hmmm

Completely unreadable.
paranoid

shiny;)
Damn got to love it;)
Pirate & Proud

Hey hey hey, nice to see innovation happening here on TF, must agree that the header is a bit to thick.

Great job….
Drag0nflamez

Awesome!
Andrew

Everything seems too big and spaced out – even ignoring the enormous header. The pink buttons/circles and the dates are distract heavily from the headlines/text. The rotating dates are annoying. “most discussed” feels far too prominent. There’s too much white when reading/writing comments.

The old design had everything you needed except for comment replies – why such an extreme change? It was a professional, easy-to-use design, it didn’t look outdated.
dg100

Wow! What a shocking difference! I’m good with the new style, especially the reply button – hooray and huzzah! My congratulations on updating the look. :D

Just a couple of things:

(1) Text on main articles is right up against the left hand side of the screen – on my monitor, it’s uncomfortable to read because the monitor plastic is reflecting the white of the page very brightly just in front of something my eyes are trying to focus on. A small margin here (even half a dozen pixels) would help a lot;

(2) As long as it’s time for change, it would be good to have an updated default message at the bottom, giving a brief list of usable HTML tags (for bold, italics, etc, which not everyone knows) and up-to-date guidelines on what actually will or won’t be tolerated by TF (which nobody seems to know, myself included).

Congrats again on the new style – I look forward to getting used to it. :D
- dg100
  
  Ooog. It occurred to me that the problem I have with the text being far too close to the left side of the screen might be because of a faulty FireFox add-on. But after testing out the theory, it seems just to be dependant on tab-bar placement. In both FireFox and Opera, if tabs are at the top, there’s a sensible margin, if tabs are on the sides, there isn’t. Very weird. :P
  - dg100
    
    Now that I’ve tried it out, I get the same annoying effect in the IE-based FeedDemon. What is up with that? :P
dg100

Hmmm… My post just vanished without a trace. Awaiting moderation? Lost? It says above: “Your email address will not be published” – but there’s no place to enter an email address, just the Your Name and Your comment things. Might that have something to do with it?
- dg100
  
  Trying out the Reply function. :D
  - dg100
    
    Yep, that works. :D:D:D
mustangx

Nice update, It’ll take a day or 2 to get used to but change is always good. I think 2 years is max any site should go without a facelift myself so you guys were overdue. Nice job TF and Ryan :)
- dg100
  
  I think it’ll take waaaaay longer than 2 days to get used to this. Just having these reply threads seems deeply weird to those who, like me, aren’t familiar with them. You only have to look at the number of people who are still needlessly typing ‘I agree with number n‘ in separate posts to see what I mean. :P
Anon

This is disgusting, sorry.
Anon

Are there any other sites that cover torrent-related news besides TF?…
- Tyson
  
  No, there are no other sites doing torrent news
anon

the main rss feed is linking to everything atm, both the news bits and normal articles. on another note, i think it would be nice to bring back the next article and previous article links under the articles.
elduka

wow through me off a bit but its nice. Not a fan of the Large Numbers in the circles though.
Eloh

I don’t like bright websites, especially when I’m reading an article or comments. It kinda hurts the eyes a bit, ya know?

In the ‘style’ I think “background-color: #CCCCCC” should be added (maybe even darker?). IMO, it’s better than plain white.

Otherwise, The site looks pretty nice, although the header could be smaller…
- Freaky
  
  Totally agree with you there, y head allready hurts from the too much white. :(
  The rest seems cool, i love the new design.
whatever

show us the previous years designs
Rekrul

The design is a mess on older browsers. I’ve sent email with screenshots.
Demfan

Nice try with the design!
jack

I like it, only suggestion would be to shrink the header just a tad. Only real complaint is that its hard to read the RSS stuff in the sub head.

Short of that its a sound improvement. Certainly designed by someone with a clue.

J>
Anonymous

Do not want.
Toby

So is this still WordPress or are you guys using expression engine now?

It looks great!
What

Contrast is awful, header is obnoxiously large. Lack of “hand” cursor on submit buttons is also really irritating, how hard is it to add cursor: pointer? Footer – all social networking icons seem to indicate they’re for Digg, and only way to determine which is which is to actually check link URL on hover. Top navigation hover menu seems glitchy and frustrating – one wrong move and it’s either gone or goes insane. As previously touched upon, content hierarchy seems highly questionable.

Short version – seems altogether amateurish.
Johnny

The search box is invisible for me (I can guess where it is, but don’t actually see it).
- dg100
  
  I can just about see the magnifying glass icon – it’s in a very dark, almost off-black colour. The box itself appears utterly black. Printed in black on a black background… isn’t that a Douglas Adams joke? :P
AlongSide1

Everything looks great, well done but is the backround a bit too white/bright? Maybe darken the lines a sort of light blue colour to make it look like copy paper or something? I think it is way to bright, ah well it won’t stop me/anyone from reading.
Everything else good job guys! Looks awesome! :D
Anon

When you hover over a menu with submenus and quickly go away and back from / to it, the submenus shows and hides multiple times.
Pl Plucker

Nice surprise.
Ninne

Nice!
no.one

I like everything but the color :/ …
Mouth

Im sorry but it looks like a lot of other sites…..NO PUNCH
Scene-r

Sexy theme AND replies? THAT’s sexy!
Sophia

Love the new look. Modern, functional and needed.

Now that you’ve finished playing with the site design can you now go back to recording TorrentFreak TV.

Please!
Jonesy

You know, people use torrents for other things than the latest super games and hd movies… If you think all people that use torrents have super computers and run at high resolutions then you’re kidding yourself.
And there is also the considerations of visually impaired users (like myself) and people browinsg on mobile devices and laptops etc.
So yes, the header *is* too tall. In some resolutions. And a good webdesign should work as well as possible in as many resolutions and screen settings as possible.
Dante Xaiver

Site looks great , Still the same easy layout I have gotten accustomed to. At least Torrent Freak didn’t do what sony did and really dumb down their Playstation web forums in an over haul that ended up making things hard to navigate.
Searinox

Okay sure it’s different. But the pages are now too narrow and that annoys with reading. PLEASE widen the pages!
ISecondThat

I miss these links too
Jolly Geoff

Very Kool But loose Or Re-Define the weird header!
ultraleetj

congrats on the new layout! this certainly makes it more organized for navigation and everything with screen readers.
Anonymous

this is so horrible it gives me a headache. I will now only read this site via my RSS feed.
Anonymous

The new design looks great TF!
Seeker

My what a change to the old out of date look. I like the new modern look and it responds well.

I have tried viewing it on Win7 using FF and my laptop 16.5 screen using Unbuntu with no problems. Everything appears to be where it should and no lagging my end.

I do agree with others that the top banner could be slitghly smaller but tat is minor issue.

Well done and thanks for the hard work put into this update.
Ryu

When I saw the colors, I thought TF was doing a breast cancer support day/week or something. So, so very pink :P
Thoughtful

Superb!
congrats

it’s a nice change congrats
Jay

I like it. But your content has always been the shining star here, keep up the great work!
Hmmm

Congrats on your new design… It’s a change for the better, although some things should have remained how they were…

I don’t really like the dropdownmenu. It adds additional waiting time to load the page I want…

I also have my doubts about the “random links” in the footer. It think it might cause some trouble later on. What I don’t like either is the date-images on the homepage… It seems out of place…

What I do like is the black menubar, the reply button, and the slogan.

But the main thing is that however the design has changed, the content has not. Keep up the good work ;)
- Hmmm
  
  What about providing the choice between the old layout and the new layout by a combination of 2 buttons and a cookie? It seems everyone would be happy then ;)
Quasit

The background is distracting when reading. Change it to plain white/grey instead.
neostyles

My only issue is that the submenu under catagories is a little hard to use. When you try to select one of the items, the menu disappears too easily.
9

tl;dr: Add multiple CSS layouts for people!!!!..

Why is every one complaining about pink?.. The old layout had pink in it too!..
Pink is fine.. I like the color scheme..
BUT the rest of it SUCKS a big dong!..

Ways to improve this design:

1: Make header tiny please, not huge..

2: Get rid of all the “flair” around the article that people really don’t care much about..

3: Get rid of wasted space on the sides so that the article and comments can breathe a little..

4: Get rid of featured article, no one cares about what stories you think are important, that is for the user to decide..

5: Get rid of most discussed articles.. No one cares about that either.. They can already see how many comments there are on stories..

6: Best idea would be to make like 10+ different CSS layout versions and let the user choose which they want, and save as a cookie.. That way every one gets to view the site how they want it and every one is happy..
h

who even reads articles from a web bowser. rss readers yo
Anon

It certainly looks more modern and less stiff/professional, but the page is far to cluttered. As many people have stated and you have agreed with, the header is obnoxiously big and the same can be said for the stuff in the side-bar. The articles are what people come here for, they should be the main focus and take up most of the page. Honestly if you want to keep all the extra stuff on the side then make it like your featured article (which should also go on the side) except make the default “closed” and have it be openable on click or something. That way if somebody wants to see it they can do so easily, and those who don’t care for it aren’t bothered with it cluttering up the screen.

Multiple CSS-styles that can be changed by the user would also be interesting, to me that seems like the best option though I don’t know if there are any issues preventing you from doing that.
FrostyC

well, I have to say, I hate it, so I quick bastardized it via CSS..
Anon

Whoa, it’s epic. You must have had truly talented people, huge deal of planning and careful execution, but it was definitely worth it. Congratulations, it takes a lot to fuck up a website so much. Ton of useless stuff about your articles, but the articles themselves are lost in here. As if some bragging about them was what people look for.

Good that you posted the link to the idiot who created it, at least nobody who came here is gonna repeat your mistake and hire him.
- Anon
  
  This
- pooreyes
  
  @171
  “Good that you posted the link to the idiot who created it, at least nobody who came here is gonna repeat your mistake and hire him.”
  
  At least we didn’t get this:
  http://armitagedigital.co.uk/
Anon

No, seriously. This is the worst thing. At least give us an option to pick between the old/better and new/worse one or something.
Anonymous

not having a full feed in google reader is really lame. pretty much means ill read 90% less of the articles listed. ive left other sites that do the same :/
Frequent Reader

Nice work – the old version really was looking a bit threadbare.
Bob

I already miss the old theme, but it’s the same star-reporting, team right? I’ll be sticking around for sure. :)
fixx’ed

http://userstyles.org/styles/23309
- Anon
  
  Cheers for that man ^^
- love it
  
  Way to go, thanks
- Anonymous
  
  Awesome, thanks.
Memnoch

…but..it’s Pink
Soro

Hate it.
man-o-tor

Wow! I like the new look a lot, especially the change in fonts, the header’s structure, the reply-button and the head of the articles. Good job!

I think change is good – but too much change is not ;)….

As several people stated, the overall look and feel seems good, but here is what I would suggest:

• The white is too much, it hurts the eye. Quite anoying, when you read a long article (and would like to read more)…

• smaller header (I just noticed you are already on that ;)…)

• faster open submenu

• I think featured article is o.k. – but should stay away, once you clicked the red X (via cookies). One should be able to toggle it, like the comments.

• I like the new features (MostDiscussed, CopyQuote, RecommendedArticle) – especially new visitors will apreciate the orientation and the veterans just could ignore them (if they’d be a little smaller -> see link below).

• I too fear the random links could lead to trouble – people who are looking for torrent sites will find them – link to other newssites or blogs or columns instead.

• #101 writes:

(2) As long as it’s time for change, it would be good to have an updated default message at the bottom, giving a brief list of usable HTML tags (for bold, italics, etc, which not everyone knows) and up-to-date guidelines on what actually will or won’t be tolerated by TF (which nobody seems to know, myself included).

I second that!

I took the liberty to use photoshop for a IS SHOULD BE comparison. Especially the “too much white” argument is self-explaining here.
Take a look:
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1599/tfnewdesignisshouldbe.jpg

Last less important point:
The little pictures on the left of each comment make me feel like I’m in a forum and not on a newssite – my opinion is you loose some of your professional image here….

That said, I can say that I will stay! i believe it’s stupid to go away just because the design changed – because the content did not! The design can be handled, even by yourself (as stated in comments above, just use greasemonkey and you’re fine!).
Ad

What’s this, change?? Nooes!

Seems fine, just keep your content awesome and I won’t care what the site looks like :)
mosta

I hate you TF, i want the old theme back.
In short; i hate it.
George Bush

I like your new “Repply” system. Now users can repply directly–and insult, if necessary–to trolls.
So pleale feel free to insult ME! (I TOTALLY DESERVE IT)
- George Bush
  
  WOW! And I can repply to my own comment too!
  Nice! :D
Anonymous

Personally, I love the new look. Looks clean and nice. Love the fact that replying in comments is now a feature. Great job with the Home, About, Archive, etc link animations.

Only problem I’ve seen so far is that the wallpaper-style banner (top of page & very bottom of page) looks a little pixelated. Hardly noticeable but worth a small mention
Mr_Guzz

To Pinky !
Anonymous

Looks good!
OpPs!

I don’t like this theme. This design screams WordPress.
ops

Hint: reduce black top stripe height
BlackBeard

Page is SOLID white! Hurts my eyes..cant you have a function to alternate back the way it was?

I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door and must have it painted black
Maybe then I’ll fade away and not have to face the facts
It’s not easy facin’ up when your whole world is black
Anonymous

Haha, pink.

It looks good, though.

But I’ve got two criticisms: first, the Post A Comment box is telling me my email address won’t be published. Uh, yeah, considering there’s nowhere to enter my email address, I’m already pretty sure it won’t be published. Redundant message is redundant.

Second, the little image to the left of “Your comment:” is the old icon for the Applications folder in Mac OS X, only turned black. lolwut.
Anon

Old theme was much better
amomymous

I liked the old background better, now it’s all white and ugly. The header is indeed somewhat too big.

I like the two-colour style and nested comment threads, though.
Caveman

yeah too much pink and too bright. still better than the previous version though
Anonymous

Wait, one more criticism. It looks like too much space is being inserted between the paragraphs in comments.

^ See, there should only be one empty line separating these paragraphs, but it appears to be two.
Richard

I’m using Chrome, and the first letter of each line is cut off. Please increase the margin on the left side.
- http://neuron2neuron.blogspot.com Ben Jones
  
  I’ve just done some checking with Chrome (such as right now), and while it’s going right TO the edge of the text, as soon as any text is obscured the scrollbar at the bottom enables you to move it to the side. So, while there is a zero margin, there isn’t a negative one.
Having monkey flashbacks

It’s pink. :)

I thought for a second I was on a cancer research page when I saw the new design.
AARON

Nice Look – Just – WAY TOO Much WHITE – I liked the old tiles because they were black and didn’t destroy my retinas
kan3

Looks good. Header is also good, there’s no need to change anything.

Great job.
Veen Reen

Oh wow, loving the new look. Totally Awesome!

http://www.anon-tools.edu.tc
Barko

Hi,

The new design is very beautifull !

But indeed I also think the header is too big and IMO the background of some elements should be brighter to reduce contrast (for example the brown background of the date and the “most discussed” topics)
Anonymous

I want to reply to someone :)
Amarnath Wanchoo

Great job. It looks beautiful.
Amit

This looks cool… The reply feature and the list of most commented articles are great additions to the site.
GiA

- the most discussed section looks awkward with asymmetrical boxes. doesn’t look neat

- the random links at the bottom needs a little rearrangement. it’ll look good if all the sites are placed under ‘random links’. right now random links and bt chat are on the same level

- link to torrrent freak tv

- the date beside the title of each post on the index page can be reduced in size. its kinda painfully huge rite now

Overall, a big thumbs up!
td4guy

Page doesn’t render properly in Firefox 2.x.
- lolwut
  
  Firefox 2.x doesn’t render properly. There’s no reason to use an old browser.
- The Terminator
  
  Old browser is old. Update to the latest version ASAP.
  
  Here are a few of my “user feedback” :P
  
  1.Give an option to choose between the old and new layout.
  2. Keep the pink theme. It is what makes this site unique from all the other crapload of news blogs.
  
  Gratz to the Ryan for his hard work
9ninety9

looks like a phukin phagot site with all the pink.
Gloomfrost

2 things:
1. You guys should have polls! That would be awesome, the first one could be what country the majority of readers are from (IP’s can’t be trusted these days! ;))

2. A community/user base/system. With thumbs up/down, votes/flags for spam, etc!

Cheers,
Gloom
A

Good!!!
Info

For the love of Raptor Jesus, add a button to expand content to browsing window width, and use a darker background if you don’t want your readers to go blind.
this.one

ew!

Ew, ew, ew!

Make it go away!
PlayBoyMan

I like the new design. Nicely Done.
Anonymous

nope i preferred the last look

where did the item about SWAN take down go???
Anonymous

font-family: PTSansBold
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Loki

Hey, I dont like it too much, the black bar on the top turns it gloomy, the rest is alright.
MD3

The overall design is nice but…

I liked having the dark leaves background on both sides of the article as I read it. It was so mysterious, classic, and much easier on the eyes! Now everything is just so white…

I liked that you preserved TF’s trademark pink headlines! :)

Will we be able to register to post comments someday? :D

Cheers.
mindless

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I dont like the new style at all.

I hope you give us an option to go back to how it was before?

Why did you not announce a beta phase where people could look at and vote on the new site design before pushing it out?
Autonomous

Shame that the RSS feed no longer has full articles. We were using this for our site and the reason we chose it over others was the fact that it was the only decent one, with full posts rather than just headlines/excerpts. Time to find an alternative or ditch the idea altogether I think.
Anonymous

The pink staying around is cool, but because TorrentFreak is the perfect late-night reading site, about a slightly dark topic sometimes, it’s a bit too white-brite.

Just my observation, but a bit darker adds to the mystery that is all things TorrentFreak.
Anon

Can you provide an option to view TF with the older layout?

It is beautiful but I like the previous one more.
hmmm

Actually I downloaded a newer browser and it looks better. But I won’t give my older browser up to follow your site.

Please do something like a link on your main page for the old version, or I’ll quit reading your blog.

Anyway, the new design looks far too facebook-ish to be interesting.
Ninja

Add the ability to edit your own posts!!

Ahem, the header is too big (except for the main page) but it’s said this will be fixed. Other than that it looks pretty good.

Cheers TF!
- dg100
  
  I’d like an edit button, as well – but only for me! Otherwise the trolls will make loads of offensive posts, then wait until there’s loads of complaints before changing the originals to something sensible, so the replies all look like nonsense. :P
Rick

Looks pretty good. I’ve got a problem with the comment area in Debian with Iceweasel (Firefox) in LXDE/XFCE…. name and comment fields go to white on white when entering….. probably on this end. Other than that you’ll just have to deal with our usual human “coping with change” issues. :)

Good luck and keep up the good work!
Anonymous

Don’t like. Too bright and pink. Gives me a headache long time.
lksd

Hi.

New look is awesome, but

pink font is too bright against white background, can you do something about that ? It is hard to read.

ps.: To all trolls, I don’t need to go to doctor, I don’t read braille, and my display is fine, it is not CRT and was not manufactured in Zimbabwe.
greybeard

Too gaudy for me, I much prefer the old look. But who cares as long as the reporting is worth reading.
wlamer

Looks pretty nice, but for the search field. It’s just too dark, almost invisible against the header. I would suggest making it a bit brighter.

Also, it turns out quite buggy in my Firefox 3.6 (Linux): the “Type Search Term Here” doesn’t appear in the field, and the annoying spot of pink colour shows up beneath the search

Displays fine in Chrome though.
wlamer

Looks pretty nice, but for the search field. It’s just too dark, almost invisible against the header. I would suggest making it a bit brighter.

Also, it turns out quite buggy in my Firefox 3.6 (Linux): the “Type Search Term Here” doesn’t appear in the field, and the annoying spot of pink colour shows up beneath the search icon. (http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/2231/searchtf.png)

Displays fine in Chrome though.
SirTainlyBonkers

I liek reading TF so I can get over the change.

BUT!

As has been pointed out before:
1 – That banner is a disaster, far too big and intrusive
2 – Featured articles, makes you think there is no news and so you move to the next site in your daily routine (That ridiculously large banner doesn’t help this either)

But all in all a nice refresh, well done the team.

PS any chance of a mobile version that only shows the news (without the side panels)
Gossamer Axe

Love the new look!
Anon

Love the layout, hate the colorscheme so much I want to die.
djc

Too much pink. Also too much white screen within comments. Even with all this white screen, there is a line and a slight off white on the right 1/3ish or so of the screen. Honestly, I liked it better the old way. I do like the reply feature however because under the old way if you responded to someone by the post number, it often changed later as posts were deleted and or approved after uhhh, moderation.
…

Header is way too fucking big.
Anon

Ryan is obviously gay but I think it looks good
´mnothere

I see it as a nice refresh with lots of things at the same place. Definitely a positive move.
bthaxor

Hint: at the top of the article, put the meta stuff (eg number of comments) to the RIGHT of the teaser text, so the text doesn’t get weird indentation as above. I’m a wb developer by the way :P
liquidmonkey

change is nice but when u change to pink, please change it.

and is it not possible to get DISQUS for the comments?
lverona

I like it, although a little bit less pink. Substitute pink for, say, orange.
Yay

tis kool
Vinzy

Looks good overall although i thought something was wrong with my bookmark at the first glance.

Not a huge fan of the pink tho….. make it green :))
Too white too pink

Prefer darker back grounds especially at night when I don’t want my eyes nuked in the white/pinky retina incinerating one we have now.

Please make an option for the old look, or a least to switch the main background to something less bright.
dark

I like the new layout but prefer not white . gray white, but everything else looks amazing.. Good Job TorrentFreak . Pink is TorrentFreak Signature Color they can’t change it even tho its not for everyone. I would prefer Red, but if they like pink then its fine all still come and read articles.
Anonymous

Love the new features, not to keen on the design however. Nice Work :)
dg100

After more usage and sober reflection, my conclusions:

Overall, the theme looks alright;
I think the complaint about it being a little too bright is justified – it could do with turning down, just a bit;
For some reason, only in FireFox, ‘type search-term here’ is missing and the ‘Your Name’ field doesn’t remember my name any more;
Feature request: There are comments here about it being a bit FaceBook – I have no problem with that, FB works as a functional visual design, if nothing else – and (without TF turning into a fully-fledged social network, as such) I’d like to see some comparable basic functionality, such as dedicated user-registration, avatars and Like/Dislike/ROFLMAO buttons – they’d actually be good and useful here, I think;
Feature request: A post-editing function for registered users;
Feature request: The improvements you’ve already made are great, but if it’s achievable, proper WYSIWIG comment-boxes would be even better, with HTML-formatting controls and the same font as the resulting post (so I can actually tell how long my posts will be – god knows I could really use this! :P );
Feature request: Updated TorrentFreak Comments Policy and list of supported HTML tags;
Thanks: For the hard work you’ve put into upgrading the site – and especially for the new and sorely needed Reply button;
Thanks: For the hard work you always put into the site – it really is very much appreciated.

Thank you very much, TorrentFreak!
Much obliged.
:D:D:D
- dg100
  
  … add to that list, another Feature request: proper display of bulleted lists. :)
  - DocGerbil100
    
    (Huh. Someone’s already registered ‘dg100′ on Disqus, so now I’m ‘dg_100′, instead. Cybersquatting? Why? What am I going to do, offer a reward of £10,000 for my old disposable username?! :D )
    
    Now that I’m a little more used to it, the site definitely feels a lot fresher than it did and so far, I’m very happy with the new Disqus comment system. I’d still like those other the few remaining features I mentioned, but on the whole, I’m very pleased. Thanks a lot for doing it, TF! :D
    - DocGerbil100
      
      An Edit button! Result! I imagine this will be a great relief for everybody after the next time I go into one, with another demented, insomnia-driven, unbelievably tl;dr post. My new comments can now be chopped down to something vaguely coherent and to the point, once I’ve had some sleep. Thank you very much indeed! :D:D:D
      
      [Edit: This is an edit! Booargh!! :D]
- Anonymous
  
  I completely disagree with the points about about dedicated user-registration, like and dislike buttons (seriously!?) and any additional complication.
  
  Simplicity on comments and not too many gimmicks and plug-in is very much one of the best features of this site.
A41202813@GMAIL.COM

I Do Not Care About Aesthetics, Because I Use The “NO COLOR ADDON” On FIREFOX, Which Toggles Colors In Or Out.

When I Used To Navigate Pages, Like This, With 100+ Comments, Surfing With The Down/up Keys Was Smooth.

Not Anymore.

I Use FIREFOX As My Default Browser, And Scrolling Comments On This Page Is Awfully Slow, Now.

I Tried FF3612 And FF3613.

With IE8 There Is No Problem.

What Is Going On ?

Is It FF, The New Design Or Just Me ?
- Anonymous
  
  Scrolling works well in Firefox (3.6.12) here, but I don’t use the up/down keys. When I do, it seems normal (but that is probably the slowest way to scroll for me).
  - A41202813@GMAIL.COM
    
    Sorry,
    
    It Was Due To A Faulty New ADDON Version.
    
    Instead Of Using New Version 75 Of HYPERWORDS, I Went Back To Old Version 701.
    
    It Works Well Now.
    
    Thank You.
joe

kinda takes a long time to load of my iphone over 3g which is usually when i read TF, shame
Because You Can’t Torrent Beer

Shiny new site!
Wolfgang

The new look and layout looks fantastic. Give my regards to Ryan for doing a great job.

Pink is a traditional color of this site. It would not be the same without it.

On a side note: if there was ANYTHING I could possibly reccomend for you guys (TorrentFreak team) to do in order to make this site better, I would love to see polls posted here and there regarding news among other things.

Users’ favorite torrent app, favorite torrent site, public opinion of Private vs Public trackers, seedboxes, and best release groups are a few examples I’d love to see sometime.

Congrats on the new site.
Anonymouse

Bring back a darker theme as before please…

Where are the nice dark mysterious leaves on the back?
Pewterbot 9

Grandma’s wallpaper!
XW

Awful. The new look is extremely wasteful of on-screen real-estate.

I would prefer a dark-theme, with much smaller text, and less empty space.
lol

Nice new Layout really liking it, would be nice to have a thumbs up and down on the comments tho
(*´??*)
Adam

A nice site redesign, keep up the good work :D
Schnauzer

I love the site.. don’t care for the new design.. things are disproportionately out of whack.. huge fat graphics for the date.. on the left.. are obnoxious.. looks like changes were made Just so someone could say.. hey I changed it… and the sizes of the headlines are too large for the body copy. I have to bump up the page a notch or two to comfortably read both the articles and the comments.. by the time, i get it the right size.. the headlines are OBNOXIOUS. again, I love the site.. and not trying to be critical but clean it up!
mwe12

its awesome, keep up the good work!
Anonymous

I am trying to post a comment and it shows
“slow down” but I didn’t post before today.
tr

It’s actually very hard to read the content now.
Anonymous

3 days after the change, I have to say I changed my opinion. I don’t like the new design. It’s bad to read now, hurts my eyes. Font also seems smaller.

I think most of us TF readers liked the darker interface, which added to the mystery ambience. Maybe many are also night-time readers. It seems the article fonts were also thicker and more readable in the older version.

The tilted dates seemed fun at first, but make us take extra time to read them and now feels just silly to me.

Why author signatures in the index of headlines? We will read it anyway! Also, author avatar is useless because I know you won’t put pics… :)

Maybe you should have just modernized the old interface, adding reply and a much wanted “thumbs up/down” (I suggest urbandictionary.com style, which lets you reset the vote).

I know the intention was good. Don’t get me wrong, it’s just that this is the only news site I read daily! So I have to be honest.

Cheers,
keep up the awesome work.
Rekrul

Why is it that sites feel they have to change, or that the site looks “outdated”? There were no problems with the old site and this is just change for the sake of change.

It’s like the IMDb. Every few years, they feel the need to completely screw up the site. The feedback for their new design is almost overwhelmingly negative, but they don’t listen.

I hate the new design here. I’m limited to an older system and the site is a mess for me. I used to look forward to coming here each day, but as it is now, I’m probably not going to continue to read the site. It’s just too much of a mess to bother with.
m

I’m not fond of pink even though I’m female (not all females like pink!!!), but it’s nice to see a more girly look to the site. ;)

But if you start adding flowers and rainbows, I will have to find a way to block your UI. lol
Disappointed

I hope you guys clean it up and simplify things, and pay attention to some of your comments here. I’m browsing for a replacement site now for this news.. been a daily reader for 3 years now… but i don’t mind leaving… i’ll check back in a few days.. but good luck either way! it was a great easy to read site for a long time… Hail to progress and confusion!
mhm

are you limiting your site for girls ?
sudoschwein

Pink. Well there has been a lot of porn torrent site reporting. Maybe a new name to go with the colour scheme Torrent Whore or something that emphasises that hot homo neo girlie style but.

nuff said
Mutualism

cool design
girly

This pink theme looks girly. :|
Anonymous

Thank god for the “stylish” plugin for Firefox.

I can use CSS overrides provided by userstyles.org to mostly fix the poor redesign.

I’m currently using this one: [http://userstyles.org/styles/23309].

YOU DID NOT NEED A REDESIGN PPL. THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE OLD SITE.
Anonymous

Nice look! Like it! And I’m glad that there is finally more options :)
Anonymous

I don’t like new design too.
something with font and colors – i’m forced to disable your css

other who like it maybe are fans of twitter design and joomla admin panel
Anonymous

TorrentFreak Looks Ugly from Today…

I don’t like new design too.
something with font and colors – i’m forced to disable your css

other who like it maybe are fans of twitter design and joomla admin panel or using too-wide-screen new 28” monitor
najo

I do like it. Great job!
It’s more inforative and easy-readable.
Anonymous

Whilst threaded comments are on the face of it a good idea, they fail when returning to read replies and new posts in a particular topic. It’s way more difficult to see the recent amongst the old and, for me at least, discourages revisiting older topics to see what people have said since I last viewed them.

It will be interesting to see how the comment counts fare now compared to how they used to be. A cursory glance at the suggests that they are lower. Is it the same for the number of page views?
Eric

I like it :) looks great!
arnold schwarzenegger

looks like gay site
VPN

Date is too big
wired

Soon as I find a new site I’ll be discontinuing my visits here. This website now looks like a 10 year old princesses room. It’s also so bright it hurts my eyes.
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Lol

This place sucks. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the old design.

I feel as if this site now has it set where the site has less available information packed into its retail. Look at the fking scroll bar on this page. At only 286 comments. Also way to make the site harder to read. Not to insult Ryan or whoever for his hard work. Though this is much unusable. I am with comment number 286. I dont think my visits to this site will continue as much so. This is unreadable guys.
Anonymous

I love the website and the articles, but I think the colors are odd for the type of website this is.

For consideration: “According to a study by the University of California, published in 2002, show a dark color can consume less energy than displaying a light color: according to your screen, display a site whose background is black will save up to 48% of energy for a CRT and up to 15% of energy for an LCD.” via http://wcs-gabon.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=55&lang=en

So by going with Darker colors you could help save energy and advertise it that way!
nightflier

Not to keen on the new look especially the header at the top of the page, its way to big.
Did not like.

I don’t like the gridline on the back.

Good old black on plain white was nicer.

Torrenters dun want graphing paper while reading their favorite torrent news… :/

First uTorrent going “square”, now this. :(
Broken site

The page links at the bottom of the archive pages don’t work:

http://torrentfreak.com/2011/01/page/2/
http://torrentfreak.com/2011/01/page/3/

They all show the first page of the month and you can’t go to the older posts.

Please give us a way so we can see posts. The home page is a mess.
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Very Nice Look…..
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No TF, I just dont like the pink color scheme and the “girlie” texture. Also, can you make the most discussed boxes same width? Because the thin ones are sometimes blocked by the comment count baloon.
finfag

It tels me that “You broke TorrentFreak!!!” and all I did was click the Last… link in archive, weird.
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The site is still perfectly functional.. so you’re doing better than Gawker.

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