I agree. IIRC, we got a heads up on 2.0 before it was launched but nothing on 3.0. :(

Poor attitude, perhaps it makes sense to you because you were involved in the redesign so you know where things were put. People shouldn't have to explore a website and read a guide to find what they want, it should be intuitive enough that it's all easily available. This was never an issue with the previous revamps, but it definitely is now. Having used VGC 1.0 an 2.0 I never had these issues with either of them. Obviously not enough time was spent on the user experience which is usually the case when you have technical people running a project. If you can't understand why people are having so much trouble with the changes and you were involved in the redesign, then that may just explain why you are getting so much negative feedback.

I still don't know why the site was split into four parts, completely unnecessary if you ask me.

If I ever said this to any of our client I'd get fired instantly. Information architecture, "user friendly" interface and navigation structure is the key to every good design.

When a user gets lost on a website, he is immediatly leaving for another one. While the VGChartz 3.0 has got a nice new visual style, the concept is one big messy fail. First of the 4 site split is the most contraproductive decision you could've made. And it only begins there. You should've invested into a profi company that is living of building large community portals, not an inside job.

/rant rant

I went from a daily visitor and active forum user to weekly visitor and this is my 2nd post after the redesign = bad.

At the very least can we have the post #anchors back, so I don't have to explore my way through a thread to find the most recent unread post?

the hot topic made vgchartz so much better then any other site, also the red when you are quote thing was brillant

Yes we need hot topics back!!!

If the fear is of trolls in the wrong forum, you can avoid that (I don't actually know if this is practical) by only "subscribing" to certain forums, so I would subscribe to the Sony, Microsoft, Gaming, Sales, Website and Off-topics sections, so I wouldn't see Nintendo news, which would prevent me from accidently going into the Nintendo forum and writing about Sony

I would also like the indication of a quote, maybe a darker green instead of red

We(or at least I) were given months of advance notice...

WTF hot topics has been back for arond 4-5 days nows

Really? Where and when? There were a few threads about some changes, but never a news post saying when and how exactly. Saying something is in the pipeline with no release date isn't really a heads up. I thought it was still a lng way off as I had seen no new info. But I could be wrong on that

The OP is spot on. The Hot Topics box and the different colour for when you'd been quoted were some of the best features of VGChartz 2.0. I think a lot of the criticisms need to be taken on board. The changes have made the site more stylish, but many have been counter-productive, made the site less intuitive and have removed the more useful features of the site.