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Title: New on the homepage - recent reviews and initial thoughts
Liam Squires-Hand 14 hours ago
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Since news comes in fast, our reviews / initial thoughts articles can get a bit buried. We're trying out something completely new, with a scrollable carousel (responsive down to mobile too!) to show off recent reviews and thoughts up the top of the website. These sit below the articles we've set as featured.

Let me know what you think and give feedback here.

Don't want it? Good news, you can bookmark direct these pages instead of the homepage - they just have the pure feeds no featured stuff:

- https://www.gamingonlinux.com/latest/
OR
- https://www.gamingonlinux.com/news/

Last edited by Liam Squires-Hand on 3 Jun 2026 at 11:39 am UTC
Liam Squires-Hand 13 hours ago
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Okay *now* it works properly, oops.
Ehvis 12 hours ago
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Doesn't appear to work for me. Tried both with and without uBlock and without it I get an extra white bar.

Edit: just for clarity this comment is for the two links, but those shouldn't have it? On the actual main page I just see the two articles with images, but that was always there, right?

Last edited by Ehvis on 3 Jun 2026 at 11:21 am UTC
Liam Squires-Hand 12 hours ago
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That's really odd, I've tested logged in / logged out across Firefox and Chrome and Mobile (iOS) and they all show the new "Reviews & Thoughts" bar under the two main featured articles before the latest news.

No, those links should not have any extras that's the point of them - just the feeds on there. This is specifically the home page.

You're saying you see nothing?

Last edited by Liam Squires-Hand on 3 Jun 2026 at 11:25 am UTC
Liam Squires-Hand 12 hours ago
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This is how it should look on Desktop:

External Media: You need to be logged in to view this.


I've even cleared the Cloudflare cache, there's no reason it shouldn't appear unless you somehow have a browser rule somewhere to block the section somehow.

Last edited by Liam Squires-Hand on 3 Jun 2026 at 11:33 am UTC
Ehvis 11 hours ago
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Ah, ok, so uBlock off on the main page gives me that. I also get an empty space below the "dismissable notification bar". So apparently it got removed in conjunction with other stuff that I collapse in the page (like social bars).

I guess this ties in with the question about how you can make the site better. For me that would be to make this things more uniquely identifiable so I easily remove things that are of no use to me and clean up the site a bit.
Liam Squires-Hand 11 hours ago
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Update: fixed the delayed scrolling on Chrome (le sigh - browser quirks eh).
Liam Squires-Hand 11 hours ago
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Quoting: EhvisAh, ok, so uBlock off on the main page gives me that. I also get an empty space below the "dismissable notification bar". So apparently it got removed in conjunction with other stuff that I collapse in the page (like social bars).

I guess this ties in with the question about how you can make the site better. For me that would be to make this things more uniquely identifiable so I easily remove things that are of no use to me and clean up the site a bit.
Weird, so it got caught in a ublock rule you manually set? How would you suggest I deal with that? The CSS class names for the section are unique so it's a bit odd it got caught in anything.
Ehvis 11 hours ago
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Quoting: Liam Squires-Hand
Quoting: EhvisAh, ok, so uBlock off on the main page gives me that. I also get an empty space below the "dismissable notification bar". So apparently it got removed in conjunction with other stuff that I collapse in the page (like social bars).

I guess this ties in with the question about how you can make the site better. For me that would be to make this things more uniquely identifiable so I easily remove things that are of no use to me and clean up the site a bit.
Weird, so it got caught in a ublock rule you manually set? How would you suggest I deal with that? The CSS class names for the section are unique so it's a bit odd it got caught in anything.
I'm basically just picking the elements to remove and sometimes that has side effects. I'll have a look when I'm not at work.
Liam Squires-Hand 6 hours ago
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Tweaked it - to avoid overly repetitive content if either the last two latest news items are reviews / initial thoughts it won't show them in the featured box.
hell0 1 hour ago
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Thank you for the alternate homepages! ❤️

I like the new home on desktop, but on my small phone it meant I did not see the title of the first article without scrolling. (And no, I will not carry a tablet in my pocket, fight me!)
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