Dillen wrote:

grumpy as always
Martin

Grumpy but right 😁

I re-post it here as i have already gave my thought on the new forum so far, on another thread.

I admire Keith's work on the new website and the many issues he solved. But i have to admit at this time that i participate in both forums, the old one is by far more tasty in terms of colours and even more clear in distinguishing two answers. Overall the look's of the new forum are medium to bad for my taste. Here is a comparison screenshot i took.

The old forum was way better than this in numerous key areas.

I never had any issues posting on the old site & so I dont see any improvement at all. In fact the old site was quicker for posting for me at least.

This new forum looks basic and cheap as Joeyboygolf & Dr Dimitris have said - and is definately a lot more awkward to use!  In fact I cant be arsed trying to set up my profile, text size, avatar blah blah. 

Same here. Old forum looked cleaner and was easier to use, and easier on the eye.

I remember when we changed from the forum before last and everyone complained. The main reason for the change is that members with higher post counts, in other words, the ones who answered questions or contributed greatly to the forum were unable to post. 

Human nature dictates that we don't like change but give it a month, you'll get used to it and complain if the forum reverted to the previous layout.

Mine are dead centre...

Safari - OSX 10.6.8

Lee

🙂

Didn't the old forum display the time of a post in local time? New forum does not seem to do that?

Razlaw wrote:

Didn't the old forum display the time of a post in local time? New forum does not seem to do that?

Edit your profile, Site options, Time zone

Stonk wrote:

I remember when we changed from the forum before last and everyone complained. The main reason for the change is that members with higher post counts, in other words, the ones who answered questions or contributed greatly to the forum were unable to post. 

Human nature dictates that we don't like change but give it a month, you'll get used to it and complain if the forum reverted to the previous layout.

Short memory  you have on this here Stonk. The previous change was rejected for the layout and colours and finally we ended to the old forum which was embraced by the majority of the posters. Since i was a beta-tester i can say that after a month i am not at all used to it or even like it.

Well, I can also admit that I liked the layout of the old forum a lot more, and it will take me considerably longer than a month to get used to this (if ever).

However, the choice wasn't about layout any more; it was about having a forum that works, or not. This is what we have now (I'm sure it can be tweaked in the future, doing everything at once would've taken forever), and I'm much happier on the whole.