Why so ugly?

[skeletor]

So it's generally admitted that Toms Hardware guide is one of the most popular hardware review sites on the net, certainly outstripping AnandTech of late anyway.

I visited there a few times, had a look around, looked at the forums etc. Question is, if it's so popular why don't they get someone to create a decent design? The site is not only seriously ugly, but is quite difficult to navigate for the first-time user. Every time I visit I expect them to have updated something but it's a;ways the same; boxes of text all over the place, ads everywhere it just seems a mess. If Anand can get a nice look why not Tommy Boy?

 

[StageLeft]

<< So it's generally admitted that Toms Hardware guide is one of the most popular hardware review sites on the net, certainly outstripping AnandTech of late anyway. >>

Crack? Smoking? You? Needles? Heroin? What?

 

[datalink7]

<<

<< So it's generally admitted that Toms Hardware guide is one of the most popular hardware review sites on the net, certainly outstripping AnandTech of late anyway. >>

Crack? Smoking? You? Needles? Heroin? What? >>

'

Whatever it is, it is WAAAAAAY to fvcking much.

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, skeletor here is a prime example of why you don't want to do a lot of drugs.

 

[skeletor]

<< So it's generally admitted that Toms Hardware guide is one of the most popular hardware review sites on the net, certainly outstripping AnandTech of late anyway.

>>




That's what I've heard, point me in the right direction rather than claim I smoked all your dope.

 

[Bluga]

Toms Hardware is more well known.

 

[skeletor]

<< Toms Hardware is more well known. >>



I thank you...

 

[UberNeuman]

Why don't you e-mail Herr Papster und ask him?

 

[StageLeft]

<< Toms Hardware is more well known. >>

Yeah, by crack-heads

 

[Pocatello]

Ignorant me, but what the heck is Toms Hardware? Does deal with computer hardware or Sears type of hardware? Is it a web site?

 

[dafatha00]

<< Toms Hardware is more well known. >>

 

[HappyPuppy]

Mentally challenged? Troll? Masochistic?

 

[911paramedic]

Isn't Tom the guy that is quite biased and keeps alienating everybody he works with??

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

neffity nef bark nef

nik

 

[zeruty]

a guy at my work really likes toms hardware.... but every time I go there it sucks... stuff is always biased, not well thought out, and presumptious. and yes its very ugly.

 

[StageLeft]

<< Isn't Tom the guy that is quite biased and keeps alienating everybody he works with?? >>

Yes, tom is a pompous ass.

 

[Spike]

toms has some OK reviews, but he is totally biased. I stopped reading that site after someone told me about anandtech and you know what? I have never looked back

 

[RSI]

<<

<< Isn't Tom the guy that is quite biased and keeps alienating everybody he works with?? >>

Yes, tom is a pompous ass. >>

lmao

these threads are great to read

BTW, I have no idea which one is more popular or more well known, but 80-90k members IS a lot for a forum (AnandTech forums), and Anand has done a lot of excellent work and his site does look nice.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

<< Ignorant me, but what the heck is Toms Hardware? Does deal with computer hardware or Sears type of hardware? Is it a web site? >>


Linky
It's a computer hardware review and news site like anandtech.

 

[StageLeft]

<< toms has some OK reviews, but he is totally biased. I stopped reading that site after someone told me about anandtech and you know what? I have never looked back >>

Yep I had the same experience. I've seen the other side and it ain't pretty.

 

[skeletor]

Just for those who thought Anandtech was more popular than Tom's.

Anand's Rating.

Tom's Rating

 

[Lithium381]

<< Isn't Tom the guy that is quite biased and keeps alienating everybody he works with?? >>



That description sounds familiar......Does Tom even write any reviews, I haven't seen any, but then again i really don't go there very often....rarely in fact.

 

[Red Dawn]

Doktor Thomas Pabst, Der Teutonic Twit and Hardware Burgermiester is also popular in der Fatherland too.

 

[zeruty]

wow, look how anandtech compares to hardocp, we need to get the word out and get AT more traffic

man also ars technica.. I would never have heard of ars technica if it wasnt for seti

slashdot is depressingly low though

 

[ShadowDJ]

Anandtech has a definite better sense of style.
Mr Pabst is a strange one

I don't like the site at all and agree completely with it being hard to navigate.
They do have a lot of new articles, though, but they're all biased.

 

[Mookow]

I have to agree, Tom's Hardware is uglier than my roommate...