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

What's done is done but this rebrand feels very un-TSR and more like the colour scheme of a Halloween supplies website. But oh well.

On mobile, I can't click on the individual notifications - wherever I tap it highlights the bell button and redirects me to the notifications page

Edit: never mind, it fixed itself.

There is just so much wasted space. As I type this, on a PC running Chrome, I can see a massive purple bar taking the top 20% of the screen, then the report button from post -1, then the previous short post, another advert and 2 lines of the quick reply I am writing. Left 20% of the screen is just white. Same with right 20% - just white. The text is so spaced out that you get to see hardly any of it while responding.

Just checked my homepage now and I don't really know what's going on. I can only see 5 discussions which are apparently all my watched threads but it just isn't true, most of those threads I've never clicked on but it's showing them as watched. And when I try to unwatch them it doesn't work. And it's all just a for you thing, there's no chronological list of all the discussions across the site that I can see like before

Header is too big on mobile to the point where it blocks key stuff such as error replying to thread, when you get the message about you needing to wait x amount of seconds before you can post again etc

At least this is the case on ST2

Edit so it’s not blocking stuff in all cases I see

This started happening a few days ago so prob not directly related to the rebrand, but when I click on the page number of a post that I want to skip to, it sometimes takes me to a "Who's who in TSR' page instead, and I have to go back and keep clicking 'next' to scroll through the pages.

Hi @Talkative Toad is the header not collapsing for you on mobile?

There is just so much wasted space. As I type this, on a PC running Chrome, I can see a massive purple bar taking the top 20% of the screen, then the report button from post -1, then the previous short post, another advert and 2 lines of the quick reply I am writing. Left 20% of the screen is just white. Same with right 20% - just white. The text is so spaced out that you get to see hardly any of it while responding.

Hi @SilverPebble, would you mind raising this one as a bug using our report an issue form?

I think it is now but it does look like that was happening before

Also mild nitpick quotation marks and tags in quotes at least on ST2 are still blue:

As far as I know none of the spacing has changed with this updated brand roll-out. Does the spacing feel different to yesterday? Either way we will raise the feedback to the team

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 have now made the change There is a possibility that you may continue to experience some site performance issues on the day while we finish our move over but we hope normal service will resume relatively seemlessly.

To raise an issue you can use our new form here.

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.

- You can see the list of issues already raised in the forum here.

We are looking forward to hearing what you think!

This thread isn't to raise any issues with ST2 as only volunteers currently have access. Could you flag those concerns directly with me either through PM or other routes, although unsure what changes we will be able to make on that experience for now

As far as I know none of the spacing has changed with this updated brand roll-out. Does the spacing feel different to yesterday? Either way we will raise the feedback to the team