New site is harder to read/less clear and the contrast hurts my eyes...

[Sparky]

I've noticed some of the grays have been changed. Can actually read the announcement titles now.

Progress

[techjesse]

Hey Fugger, The New Forums look Great! Good Job Thank You for all of your hard work. TJ

[anonymous_user]

The main forum page and subsections (white) are so bright compared to viewing threads (gray). And the blue text on white bg doesn't help.

[OldChap]

The Brightness on my monitor will not go low enough to match the contrast needed to read clearly. I'm liking the layout and most changes except the font size/colors for some things.... I didn't check recently but again...please enable tables.

[T_M]

Not a fan at all.
Find the background is glowing more than the text im trying to read (describing the feeling).
UAT would have been an idea before releasing to the wild.
Font size is too small and thin for me

[THX1138]

I enjoy the new site, its easy on my old eyes and I can read it just fine in this poorly light dungeon.

[dexster]

for what it is worth... i find the new site better overall

whilst i preferred the old colours ; for some reason it seems to be faster on my laptop (computer i do most browsing on)

[RaZz!]

The thread layout isn't problematic, but the thread listings are. They're very cluttered, making it hard to pick out new rows. Simply making the second line smaller would solve this. As it stands now, the "Started by <username>‎, <timestamp>" line is actually LARGER than the thread titles which is a bit absurd.

QFT. that's one of the most obvious and distracting issues i have with the new layout. another thing are the colors of text/background and several font sizes. e.g. blue username on dark grey background is pretty horrible. i'd also increase the size of the username. another example are the drop menus at the top of the page ("quick links", "forum action"), dark grey text on dark blue background, not to speak of the strange grey background of the expanded drop down menu. there needs to be a lot of tweaking regarding these things, no doubt.

however, i like the new vbb layout. it's refreshing and new - way better than the old theme. the former xs-layout looked pretty old and dull and i've never really liked it. i'm glad it's gone for good now

Guys, please give FUGGER a chance to finish tweaking this one. There's a lot of crap he has to poke through in the background (in his spare time) to sort things out and this update is only about a week old. It will eventually start to feel like home again but, there's a lot of construction that needs to take place before that happens.

with due respect to fugger and the work he puts into xs, it has always been an issue with xs that there's no testing done BEFORE things get changed on the production system. usually you should have smth like a test system, maybe a staging system and a production system. since such systems cost money, let's reduce it to just test and production. this has been criticized several times in the past by a lot of people (including me). even though i'm sure "fugger and friends"(TM ) are working on improving the theme, we all have to live with a pretty ty looking theme for weeks until it gets fixed . this could have been prevented quite easily - why not prepare a fully optimized theme before the whole forum is upgraded?
i've administrated quite a few smaller forums (<100 users) and even there i always prepared everything on a seperate forum installation. and only if everything worked and looked like it should, i've applied the changes to the actual production forum installation. since xs is such a huge forum with thousands of members and even more readers, you'd expect a little more professionalism when it comes to these things

don't get me wrong, i don't want to offend the people who run these great forums, but there are a few principles that should be respected when running such a huge community. and if you don't follow these principles you should by no means be suprised when the forum is flood with lots of critics and moaning

[Waterlogged]

with due respect to fugger and the work he puts into xs, it has always been an issue with xs that there's no testing done BEFORE things get changed on the production system. usually you should have smth like a test system, maybe a staging system and a production system. since such systems cost money, let's reduce it to just test and production. this has been criticized several times in the past by a lot of people (including me). even though i'm sure "fugger and friends"(TM ) are working on improving the theme, we all have to live with a pretty ty looking theme for weeks until it gets fixed . this could have been prevented quite easily - why not prepare a fully optimized theme before the whole forum is upgraded?
i've administrated quite a few smaller forums (<100 users) and even there i always prepared everything on a seperate forum installation. and only if everything worked and looked like it should, i've applied the changes to the actual production forum installation. since xs is such a huge forum with thousands of members and even more readers, you'd expect a little more professionalism when it comes to these things

don't get me wrong, i don't want to offend the people who run these great forums, but there are a few principles that should be respected when running such a huge community. and if you don't follow these principles you should by no means be suprised when the forum is flood with lots of critics and moaning

Absolutely no argument from me on this point.

It just really annoys me (and I'm sure I'm not the only one...I just have the gumption to say something about it) when ppl don't read topics before posting something that has been addressed in that topic.

[soxism]

I'd Agree.. The Colour Scheme is just plain Shocking. Tho VERY HAPPY you guys upgraded the Forum!! Great Job on that.. Just get to work on your CSS Boys! (or girls)

[NEOAethyr]

If anything I do like the color of the text/bg of the code box.
Stands out nicely and it's very readable.

Ex.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0

I do think some of the other stuff needs work but whatevers, it works .

[Dagalidis]

Fugger you have to reduce space on Posts !!!

Just Do this !!

go in:

Admin CP -> Style & Templates -> Style Manager -> CSS Templates -> Postbit.css

Find:

/*post bit*/ 

Add under it:

.postbitlegacy .after_content {
clear:right !important;
} 

Save.

Also add on CCS...

------------
additional.ccs

/* move up signature */
.postbitlegacy .after_content {
clear:none; } 

------------
postbit.ccs

/*post bit*/
.postbitlegacy .after_content {
clear:right !important;
} 

Here is a sample of affect !!!

[[XC] Oj101]

Nice

[M.Beier]

Not a fan at all.
Find the background is glowing more than the text im trying to read (describing the feeling).
UAT would have been an idea before releasing to the wild.
Font size is too small and thin for me

Honestly thought it was only me...
Think it looks quite a bit thinner

[runmc]

Fugger you have to reduce space on Posts !!!

Just Do this !!

go in:

Admin CP -> Style & Templates -> Style Manager -> CSS Templates -> Postbit.css

Find:

/*post bit*/ 

Add under it:

.postbitlegacy .after_content {
clear:right !important;
} 

Save.

Also add on CCS...

------------
additional.ccs

/* move up signature */
.postbitlegacy .after_content {
clear:none; } 

------------
postbit.ccs

/*post bit*/
.postbitlegacy .after_content {
clear:right !important;
} 

Here is a sample of affect !!!

Thanks for the help!!!!

[Dagalidis]

Thanks for the help!!!!

Its my Pleasure !!!
I have some nice tips to help your forums Increase Performance and have better Styling !!!
I run also on My Server more than 4 VB Forums and i know well how hard is to fine tune the VB.

[shoota]

can you make the thread title bigger than the "thread started by" plz, pretty pretty plz

[jcniest5]

If I have to choose, I like the old one better, but hey, technology can only go forward.

[dogsx2]

I never liked it, I don't like it now, and I won't like it no matter what they do.

ditto...........

[MAS]

it's a typical mistake - migrating from VB 3.8 to 4

compare forumhome:

[rintamarotta]

This is becoming perfect, better than the old one.

[I.nfraR.ed]

I'm not able to see Home tab and page while I'm logged in. It says I don't have required permission to access the page if I try to open it via link.
If I log out, Home tab is visible again.

Logged in:
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Logged out:
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[runmc]

I never liked it, I don't like it now, and I won't like it no matter what they do.

I was being sarcastic when I said this. Site looks fine to me. Thanks for the effort FUGGER

[[XC] Oj101]

it's a typical mistake - migrating from VB 3.8 to 4

compare forumhome:

Hmmm, the latter is much easier on the eyes. I must say I'm slowly starting to get used to this

[runmc]

Its my Pleasure !!!
I have some nice tips to help your forums Increase Performance and have better Styling !!!
I run also on My Server more than 4 VB Forums and i know well how hard is to fine tune the VB.

Is it possible to make the thread title larger than who the thread was started by?