I'm enjoying the changes, but the contrast really needs to be increased.

Alright, I think the new style is much better now. Front page still looks bland though.

any sort of separating line between the + and - buttons would be greatly appreciated

The changes made to the site are pleasing overall. If possible, it would be appreciated to have a choice of color schemes implemented; eg, light, normal, dark.

I wouldn't suggest a separating line, but rather some more space if anything; it's not necessary, though, as you can correct your + or - frag if you misclick anyways.

Couple minor things:

Would it be possible to get either the thread page numbers back or a button that takes you to the newest unread post? Not a big deal if not, but in a thread that blew up like the ESEA one, itd be convenient to go to where you left off as opposed to have to go back through posts.

I like the new design, but there are some other things I would like to see and some things I don't like as much.

• The Twitter/YouTube/Twitch links in the footer should go in the header, in my opinion; in-between the forums and profile buttons. The odds that someone is going to scroll down all the way(the footer floats, it's not fixed) and actually read those links are quite small. It also looks professional to have your media listed in a prominent place.
  
• A preview button on the forums would be nice.
  
• I would personally remove the bar with the TFTV logo at the top of the homepage, but keep it for other pages. This will increase the size of the homepage significantly and create space for what's in the paragraphs below.

I think that any person new to the website is going to think this is "just another TF2 forum/just another casting organisation". While this may at one point have been true, TFTV has now grown to be the major international hub for TF2 and the homepage should reflect this. Something I've always felt has been missing on the homepage are guides for the greenest of green players.

What I think the homepage should do is peak the interest of the average sort-of-interested pubber. You essentially need informative clickbait. I would suggest a flashy bar at the top of the homepage(but below the header) which would read something along the lines of "New to competitive TF2? Click the links below to find out more!" and then have buttons or just links right below that saying "6vs6", "9vs9 (Highlander)", "2vs2 (Ultiduo)" linking to a relevant thread on the forums which is essentially a beginner's guide with information on the format, rules and leagues with further links to more specific guides.

I, apparently like many others, also feel that the events on the homepage should come back, because then it looks like the community has something going on.

Good work overall, though. I could easily list many changes I like than I dislike.

P.S. On an entirely unrelated note: 6s should probably have a name like "Highlander" or "Ultiduo". Even if it's just "Classic" or "Standard" or something, I think it would make sense since the other formats do have names. It's odd how you only notice those things when you see them written down, sometimes...

this hurts my eyes

i love how quickly you can browse through the forums now

I don't know where else to seek help at this point i'm desperate, TwitchJohn if you're reading this please unban me I can't even talk in Sideshow's stream and use my mod

As was said before, media and social networking links should be at the top or on a sidebar.

Front page needs events/articles with pictures to draw in new players.

Also a big, fixed button/link on the front page that says something like: "Interested in playing competitive TF2? Click here to get started!" Then just link it to playcomp.tf

Edit: Simple label above each sidebar would be great for newcomers as well. "News", "Latest Posts", "Servers", etc.

-double post-

so can u make a dark theme please

Clicking the search bar misaligns a bunch of things (on firefox, at least):

http://puu.sh/ewCD7.png

to

http://puu.sh/ewCFv.png

Adding

line-height: 11px;

to

#search-submit

makes the search icon look aligned again:

http://puu.sh/ewCcN.png

but that's probably just a shim--I'm far too lazy to figure out what the bigger problem is.

Edit: it's a whole lot more obvious when it actually happens than in the screenshots imo. Also, I think the search icon changes color and size, but idk if that's a stylistic thing.

I don't know if I should be stoked to have paparazzi posting pictures of shit related to me from 1+ year ago or if I should be worried there's some fuck boy who I've never talked to keep the dumbest pictures related to me from 1 + year ago.

its hard to read the amount of upvotes/downvotes on the first post
also thank you for the preview button finally

when ever i press quote it doesnt automatically go to the bottom

After using this for a while I've noticed I'm still clicking at the Forum tab instead of using the front page, I don't know if it's just me though

Also I think the news articles could be highlighted or something because they blend in with the other normal threads right now

Would love to have a button that pushes you down to last comment like there is for getting to top

http://i.gyazo.com/fdbe381ef384e791aa923adaa68aa935.png

small thing, but the old up arrow / down arrow were far superior to the new + / -

http://puu.sh/eF8Bv/76b9fee423.png

even though it's all downvotes, it's still next to the "Upvote" button, why?

please rename them upfrags and downfrags for the OP as well

pretty solid 404 page by the way

Two things I thought I'd mention, since I've been visiting this site too many times to not try and provide some input.

My biggest issue with the new website is how boring, flat, and just... unattractive it looks. I understand that it's clean(ish), new flat style, etc. But I can't help but be uninterested when I open this page up. Even though the main page on the old TF.TV had sort of out of date pictures and news on it all the time, it really added to the color and attractiveness of the page, as I'd always either a) Laugh at the art (medic faces are the ze best), or b) Admire the artwork before looking to the left bar for recent forum news. The new main page is great for looking at all the forum stuff, but it really turns me off when everything is looking so boring.

^ Just remember, this is my own OPINION. If I'm the only person here that misses the big, bright artwork on the main page and the color, then just completely ignore me and what I just said, since I'm probably the weirdo who lives in the past and still really likes skeuomorphism.

2nd thing that's more of a question the people reading: Does anyone else have a poor scrolling framerate on this site? Whenever I start to scroll, there's about a 0.5 second delay before it starts to scroll, and instead of scrolling smoothly, it jerks up/down. I have a strong suspicion that it's related to my laptop and its resolution since I'm on a Retina Macbook, but I currently have no other computer to access/test it out, so I thought I'd ask the readers here about it.

I noticed that scrolling problem as well.

Just pointing out, currently there are too many things in the event sidebar, so the event that it tonight isn't actually even on the sidebar. It should probably be reorganized in a way that allows the close events to be at the top, rather than the reverse order.

i still miss the button that took you to the bottom of the page

now that pages are 50 posts per page it can be a lot of scrolling to get to new stuff

ded

scrolling seems to be messed up on my phone's browser by the floating bar pushing the page down whenever i stop scrolling

for scheduled esea matches on http://teamfortress.tv/schedule, use the ESEA logo instead of the tftv logo. if it's being covered by tftv then maybe put both.

the logos are under the "stream" tab. maybe have a separate tab entirely if you want something like that, but it would be pretty confusing if the "stream" for the game was ESEA.

also, i think the process is automatic (see: http://teamfortress.tv/schedule/?page=2 jan 2nd newbie mix announcements)