Do you read Hexus.net?

[Krakkenbus]

I don't use the front page but I do use the links down the right hand side of the forum.

[Ulti]

I go on Hexus forums quite a lot so I generally click the news on the sidebar when it seems interesting

[TooNice]

Depends how free I am really. If I have spare time, I'll check the front page. The main thing I like about Hexus reviews is the bang-4-buck section (I mentioned this before), which is based on UK pricing. Since I am quite into quiet/silent computing these days, I will often head to SPCR when looking for coolers and such. Anandtech for pages of technical explanations on new architectures.

[Stephen C]

I read most the gaming articles but also attack the sidebar when there's something that catches my eye.

[kasavien]

I read the main site prety much every day, but as umpteen other people have said, it would be better if there were more reviews, I enjoy finding out what new innovations are coming to market. Having said that I do enjoy reading the news related articles in Hexus.channel. Also the layout of the main site could be simplified somewhat, a cleaner look is always better in my opinion, and a mobile version would be good too. These are all things that would be nice extras, for now I'm quite happy with the way things are, I'd still come here if things stayed the same.

[scaryjim]

@ Jim, i keed, i keed.

Lol - after reading some of the recent articles (see, I can be on topic ) I remember that they'd re-badged the G210 / GT220 to the G310 / G315, but since it seems Fermi is going to be G[T[S|X]]400 I might forgive them some intermediate rebadging of G[T[S|X]]200 cards to G[T[S|X]]300...

And it occurs to me that since I believe most of hexus is published in RSS format it should be fairly straightforward to write a mobile app that pulls down the latest RSS then formats it nicely. It may be possible to do something in terms of contributing to the forums too. I might have to download the Android SDK and start playing with that - anyone else interested? Also, anyone know if there's a mobile skin for vBulletin already?

[Fraz]

I read it but mostly through the sidebar on the forum rather than the home page.

Same

[Shad]

I normally read articles that look interesting from the forum sidebar, and from there quite often look at the complete homepage to see other interesting pieces.

However, my gripe is the number of articles that are needlessly spread over multiple pages (here's a good example). I actually didn't bother reading the last page because I'd got bored of clicking next and waiting for the page to load, and then getting back into the flow of reading the article.

I would much, much prefer to scroll down a page instead of having to keep clicking through pages and waiting. Take a look at how The Register does things and you'll notice they very rarely resort to pagination and when they do, each page is usually a decent size.

Cheers

Edit: The more I think about it, this applies to other areas too. Back in the old days when connections were slow, paginating review articles made sense. But having a long drop down list of tens of pages/review sections is Shirley overkill. We all have decent connections and scrolling abilities (even on a mobile device), WHY do we keep having to click a button and wait for the next page to load?! Just because a news article/review has 25 pages doesn't automatically make it better than a review with 5 pages.

[MadduckUK]

However, my gripe is the number of articles that are needlessly spread over multiple pages (here's a good example). I actually didn't bother reading the last page because I'd got bored of clicking next and waiting for the page to load, and then getting back into the flow of reading the article.

I would much, much prefer to scroll down a page instead of having to keep clicking through pages and waiting. Take a look at how The Register does things and you'll notice they very rarely resort to pagination and when they do, each page is usually a decent size.

actually id forgotten about this, +1

stop trying to cram as many adverts into an article as possible if it means nobbing it up in the process

[Funkstar]

actually id forgotten about this, +1

stop trying to cram as many adverts into an article as possible if it means nobbing it up in the process

Reviews on the main site are usually worse than Channel as there are more adverts.

The Dell Zino HD is a good example: http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22162

However, this one is a lot better: http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22231

[MadduckUK]

i have figured a part of the problem, from what i can make of these :-

http://channel.hexus.net/content/ite...m=21138&page=1

http://channel.hexus.net/content/ite...m=21118&page=1

http://channel.hexus.net/content/ite...m=21075&page=1

etc..

this would be a 2 page article if it were on hexus

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...-credit-crunch

[Will404]

I will genorally open every article, glance at it, and if there is a nice picture which catches the eye, or something particularrly interesting in the title, go on to read it. The videos i rarley watch, except things like ces