Is there a way to opt out of the new website format?

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waxman
waxman Posts: 935 ✭✭✭✭
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The new look of these forums makes posts very hard to read due to the following:
-thin gray line separating posts, threads, and sig lines
-new comments button, and Agree, Like, and LOL buttons seem small when compared to the text.
-all white background

Looking forward to (or backward to) the old look of these forums.

Adam
collecting O-Pee-Chee (OPC) baseball cards
also collecting US & Canadian junk silver

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  • handyman
    handyman Posts: 5,707 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    No soup for you!
    Next

    Fun stuff. It will only get better..

  • handyman
    handyman Posts: 5,707 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Or more exciting..

  • bgr
    bgr Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    This is why no one uses copilot for coding.

  • ElMagoStrikeZone
    ElMagoStrikeZone Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The forum has been crashing a lot in recent weeks. This may be temporary. I hope. This format is ancient and quite rudimentary.

  • BLUEJAYWAY
    BLUEJAYWAY Posts: 11,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Could be someone is trying to tell us something.

    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • 1982FootballWax
    1982FootballWax Posts: 2,848 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It is also impossible for everyone to edit posts since this alleged upgrade as it now is for
    me?

    It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)
    Not even a minute do I buy the whole buh buh buh I'm a man-child japery - Me (2025)

  • mintonlypls
    mintonlypls Posts: 2,911 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    This sucks!

    mint_only_pls
  • mintonlypls
    mintonlypls Posts: 2,911 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The only silver lining for me is that the MBA attacks may slow…

    mint_only_pls
  • 1982FootballWax
    1982FootballWax Posts: 2,848 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Now you done ruined a peaceful thread

    It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)
    Not even a minute do I buy the whole buh buh buh I'm a man-child japery - Me (2025)

  • Nathaniel1960
    Nathaniel1960 Posts: 2,343 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It will grow on you.

    Kiss me once, shame on you.
    Kiss me twice.....let's party.
  • lwehlers
    lwehlers Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    this format is really white but the pictures of cards look really good.

  • Stone193
    Stone193 Posts: 24,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The edit button isn't working right now - I've sent that in.

    Years ago we had an alpha list of members with just the PMs of that person - made it much easier to communicate for me. So e.g. - go to "S" - look up stone193 and see only the PMs you had with me.

    I find it too white right now - not sure who's in charge of this - but they can try different color combinations - that's probably a "toolbox" issue?

    Mike
  • Stone193
    Stone193 Posts: 24,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Had to take a new post since I can't edit.

    I went to HELP and got this: There are no knowledge bases

    Also on my laptop - I would like the font to be a little larger but if I up it, I can't see the info that's to the right of the main part.

    Mike
  • burghman
    burghman Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭✭
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    Was this even tested? If there’s 1 new post in a thread, it says “1 new”; more than one and it says (for example, if there’s are 3 new posts) “3 new plural”??? Bizarre.

    I agree with the masses - too white, no difference between the post and the sig line, harder to switch between forums now. Not great.

    Jim

  • craig44
    craig44 Posts: 13,179 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    it has been a few days. this new format is still not growing on me.

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • clarke442
    clarke442 Posts: 628 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Hopefully the "Back to Top" arrow reappears

  • BAJJERFAN
    BAJJERFAN Posts: 31,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    TBH I don't see an easy way to get back to the homepage from here. A perfect example of "if it aint broke, break it".

    theknowitalltroll;
  • 1all
    1all Posts: 543 ✭✭✭
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    @BAJJERFAN said:
    TBH I don't see an easy way to get back to the homepage from here. A perfect example of "if it aint broke, break it".

    It's literally a Theme that is likely chosen from a drop down menu. If this is the best option, I can only imagine how bad the other options are.

  • 1982FootballWax
    1982FootballWax Posts: 2,848 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Compared to Invision for example, the current new look and functionality here is akin to loose feces

    It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)
    Not even a minute do I buy the whole buh buh buh I'm a man-child japery - Me (2025)

  • BAJJERFAN
    BAJJERFAN Posts: 31,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @1all said:

    @BAJJERFAN said:
    TBH I don't see an easy way to get back to the homepage from here. A perfect example of "if it aint broke, break it".

    It's literally a Theme that is likely chosen from a drop down menu. If this is the best option, I can only imagine how bad the other options are.

    I don't even see that. Try any of the choices on top and see where it leads to. All go to the message boards for me.

    theknowitalltroll;
  • 1all
    1all Posts: 543 ✭✭✭
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    Sorry..... a theme is a back-end choice that the moderator/webmaster can pick. Not something users can choose.

    If anyone wants to go down the rabbit hole.... https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/279-theme-editor-overview

  • ArtVandelay
    ArtVandelay Posts: 887 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It's like this site de-evolved back to 2006.

  • Nathaniel1960
    Nathaniel1960 Posts: 2,343 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @grote15 said:

    @Nathaniel1960 said:
    It will grow on you.

    This makes 1973 Topps look like the greatest card design ever.

    Have I made a convert?

    Kiss me once, shame on you.
    Kiss me twice.....let's party.
  • Stone193
    Stone193 Posts: 24,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    😎

    Mike
  • Stone193
    Stone193 Posts: 24,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @burghman said:
    Was this even tested? If there’s 1 new post in a thread, it says “1 new”; more than one and it says (for example, if there’s are 3 new posts) “3 new plural”??? Bizarre.

    I agree with the masses - too white, no difference between the post and the sig line, harder to switch between forums now. Not great.

    Good point Jim.

    When we got the last format, I was one of the people that beta tested it and found all kinds of problems; the one I couldn't get them to fix - for those who remember the one before that from the early 2000s - our PMs were keep separate for each member and we could alpha search them - would really like that.

    Mike
  • sayheywyo
    sayheywyo Posts: 641 ✭✭✭✭
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    Pretty bad. My eyes go directly to the signature lines..... I can't unsee those silly things.

  • burghman
    burghman Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭✭
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    Well, “plural” no longer shows up in the new message count so maybe someone’s listening to our feedback!

    Jim

  • West22
    West22 Posts: 304 ✭✭✭
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    This is god awful.

  • vintagebanks
    vintagebanks Posts: 71 ✭✭✭
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    @lahmejoon said:
    The thing I like the least is the signature section takes up more real estate than the actual post. If we can't go back to the old format, I would love to see the signature section be reduced in size.

    You can hide all signature lines in account settings, it makes viewing 90% better. My headache even went away after making this change :D

  • SDSportsFan
    SDSportsFan Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I've just now seen this new format, and all I have to say is:

    W T F ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

    Give us back the old format..........P L E A S E ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

    Steve

  • frankhardy
    frankhardy Posts: 8,213 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Dear human beings in this world,

    Please....just leave leave well enough alone. Don't fix things that aren't broke. Don't reinvent the wheel. Don't upset the apple cart. Let sleeping dogs lie. Don't mess with a good thing. Don't change horses in midstream.....and any other cliches that may apply.

    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

    Sincerely,

    Almost all human beings in this world

    Shane

  • Stone193
    Stone193 Posts: 24,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    When we changed it last time, I liked the old format better and asked Jackie why we couldn't leave well enough alone?

    She told me the company could "No Longer" support that format and had to make the change.

    Not sure whether that's IT BS or what? Me? Computers have two speeds: On & Off.

    Mike

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