The Student Room Update: New Look, New Homepage and More!

Since the launch of The Student Room more than two decades ago, we have welcomed millions of students seeking assistance with their education, life, and future careers. Throughout this period both the higher education landscape and the student community have undergone significant transformations. However, our core mission has remained unwavering: to provide a safe and welcoming space where students can receive genuine advice and support from our online community.

While our mission has persevered, our brand has stayed largely unchanged for the past decade! Over the past few months we’ve been working behind the scenes carrying out a huge amount of research, internal workshops, focus groups and user testing to gather feedback at all stages of the creative design process and we are proud to announce that The Student Room is getting a make-over!

We will be releasing our brand new look Thursday 11th January.

We will be making this change early on Thursday morning. There is a possibility that you may experience some site funkyness on the day while we move over to our new look but we hope normal service will resume relatively seemlessly.

What's Changing?

- A new brand identity giving us a new look across the whole site, making The Student Room more accessible with a vibrant new colour palette.

- A brand new homepage for guests better signposting the benefits of joining our community

- A brand new homepage for members, bringing a personalised feed to all users allowing our community to access the content they are interested in, faster.

What's this space for?

- To share feedback and thoughts on our new look! We always want to hear from our community on the changes we make.

- If you are experiencing bugs, performance issues, or have requested changes then we would love it if you could use our new ticket system you can find here. This will let our team of developers process, organise and update you on progress of specific issues.

We are looking forward to hearing what you think!

Your "The Student Room Update..." announcement link goes to: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7336114 (a totally different thread from several months ago).

To paraphrase an unknown MP: "Not a good start, Homer".

I'm not seeing any colour difference between my read and unread notifications (Win 11 laptop, chrome).

Do like the rebrand though

I'm not seeing any colour difference between my read and unread notifications (Win 11 laptop, chrome).

Do like the rebrand though

Love the colours. I like the new font colour too much sharper on my phone.

Keeping an eye out for bugs 🐜

Could you raise a bug via the process here, please? I'll have a look into this shortly!

Since the launch of The Student Room more than two decades ago, we have welcomed millions of students seeking assistance with their education, life, and future careers. Throughout this period both the higher education landscape and the student community have undergone significant transformations. However, our core mission has remained unwavering: to provide a safe and welcoming space where students can receive genuine advice and support from our online community.

While our mission has persevered, our brand has stayed largely unchanged for the past decade! Over the past few months we’ve been working behind the scenes carrying out a huge amount of research, internal workshops, focus groups and user testing to gather feedback at all stages of the creative design process and we are proud to announce that The Student Room is getting a make-over!

We will be releasing our brand new look Thursday 11th January.

We will be making this change early on Thursday morning. There is a possibility that you may experience some site funkyness on the day while we move over to our new look but we hope normal service will resume relatively seemlessly.

What's Changing?

- A new brand identity giving us a new look across the whole site, making The Student Room more accessible with a vibrant new colour palette.

- A brand new homepage for guests better signposting the benefits of joining our community

- A brand new homepage for members, bringing a personalised feed to all users allowing our community to access the content they are interested in, faster.

What's this space for?

- To share feedback and thoughts on our new look! We always want to hear from our community on the changes we make.

- If you are experiencing bugs, performance issues, or have requested changes then we would love it if you could use our new ticket system you can find here. This will let our team of developers process, organise and update you on progress of specific issues.

We are looking forward to hearing what you think!

- I need to refresh the page at least twice to be able to click or send messages, replies or quotes.
- It's difficult to distinguish between read and unread messages; is anyone else facing the same problem?

Really like the color scheme though, it's sharp and vibrant!

Colour scheme is hideous IMHO - green/purple have always been my example of 2 colours that clash horribly, so...

More seriously, you have some text showing as red on purple (e.g. the warning text that your reply is too short). This is extremely difficult to read.

The main part of the homepage
https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/
Seems to be all greyed out. Id post the image but ... Echo the comment about about the bold (new) notifications being hard to distinguish on windows/chrome and being able to easily see which threads youve replied to (small pen on same colour icon).

LOVING THE NEW LOOK!!!!
Great job TSR!!!!

BTW, where do I find the emojis when typing? I just copied and pasted this one

The main part of the homepage
https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/
Seems to be all greyed out. Id post the image but ... Echo the comment about about the bold (new) notifications being hard to distinguish on windows/chrome and being able to easily see which threads youve replied to (small pen on same colour icon).