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

waxman · September 24, 2026 8:33AM

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.

craig44 · September 24, 2026 9:27AM

@waxman said:
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.

agreed. i would love the option to switch back.

lahmejoon · September 24, 2026 10:06AM

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.

BBBrkrr · September 24, 2026 10:15AM

This might be the worst graphic design and layout formatting I've ever seen on any website in the history of the internet.

Just catastrophically horrible in every aspect.

estang · September 24, 2026 10:54AM

There's way - way - way too much white on the forum now.

It's hard on the eyes - even as I type this.

It will cause me to come here less.

Need to blend the contrast better. This is terrible. It's too clean and sterile, causing eye strain.

handyman · September 24, 2026 11:21AM

No soup for you!
Next

Fun stuff. It will only get better..

handyman · September 24, 2026 11:23AM

Or more exciting..

bgr · September 24, 2026 11:48AM

This is why no one uses copilot for coding.

ElMagoStrikeZone · September 24, 2026 12:10PM

The forum has been crashing a lot in recent weeks. This may be temporary. I hope. This format is ancient and quite rudimentary.

BLUEJAYWAY · September 24, 2026 12:53PM

Could be someone is trying to tell us something.

galaxy27 · September 24, 2026 1:01PM

fellas, please calm down. it's gonna be great.

all the best,
ford edsel, sony betamax, new coke, crystal pepsi, and ben-gay aspirin

1all · September 24, 2026 3:01PM

You know that it's bad when even your webpage from 2001 looked better:

1all · September 24, 2026 3:13PM

God I love AI

1982FootballWax · September 24, 2026 3:34PM

It is also impossible for everyone to edit posts since this alleged upgrade as it now is for
me?

mintonlypls · September 24, 2026 4:38PM

This sucks!

mintonlypls · September 24, 2026 4:40PM

The only silver lining for me is that the MBA attacks may slow…

1982FootballWax · September 24, 2026 5:11PM

Now you done ruined a peaceful thread

Nathaniel1960 · September 24, 2026 5:24PM

It will grow on you.

lwehlers · September 24, 2026 5:46PM

this format is really white but the pictures of cards look really good.

Stone193 · September 24, 2026 7:41PM

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?

Stone193 · September 24, 2026 7:47PM

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.

burghman · September 24, 2026 11:48PM

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.

grote15 · September 25, 2026 1:15AM

@Nathaniel1960 said:
It will grow on you.

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

craig44 · September 25, 2026 5:10AM

it has been a few days. this new format is still not growing on me.

clarke442 · September 25, 2026 6:23AM

Hopefully the "Back to Top" arrow reappears

BAJJERFAN · September 25, 2026 6:37AM

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".

1all · September 25, 2026 6:58AM

@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 · September 25, 2026 6:59AM

Compared to Invision for example, the current new look and functionality here is akin to loose feces

BAJJERFAN · September 25, 2026 9:12AM

@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.

1all · September 25, 2026 9:51AM

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 · September 25, 2026 12:36PM

It's like this site de-evolved back to 2006.

Nathaniel1960 · September 25, 2026 2:57PM

@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?

Stone193 · September 25, 2026 3:38PM

😎

Stone193 · September 25, 2026 7:02PM

@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.

sayheywyo · September 26, 2026 12:56AM

Pretty bad. My eyes go directly to the signature lines..... I can't unsee those silly things.

burghman · September 26, 2026 4:26AM

Well, “plural” no longer shows up in the new message count so maybe someone’s listening to our feedback!

West22 · September 26, 2026 6:11AM

This is god awful.

vintagebanks · September 26, 2026 7:47AM

@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

SDSportsFan · September 26, 2026 9:43AM

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 · September 26, 2026 1:26PM

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

Stone193 · September 26, 2026 1:34PM

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.

BJY83 · September 26, 2026 9:11PM

Apparently PSA just sucks at everything now.

craig44 · September 27, 2026 5:30AM

soooooo much white on this screen...

1982FootballWax · September 27, 2026 6:57AM

@craig44 said:
soooooo much white on this screen...

To those using Firefox or Chrome I wrote a quick CSS for use with Stylus extension. My custom gray scheme is not perfect but IMHO a whole lot easier on the eyes than this mess of a default forum scheme.

Here is the code for any interested:

For URL's starting with: https://forums.collectors.com/

 `@-moz-document url-prefix("https://forums.collectors.com/") {
    .Frame-content {
        background-color: #a7a6a6 !important;
        color: black !important;
    }
    #vanillaCompatBodyBg {
        background-color: #bab9b9!important;
    }
    div[id^="Discussion_"],
    div[id^="Discussion_"] * {
        background-color: #b9b8b8 !important;
        color: #000000 !important;
    }
    [id*="Discussion_"],
    [id*="Discussion_"] * {
        background-color: #b1b1b1 !important;
        color: black !important;
    }
    [id*="Comment_"],
    [id*="Comment_"] * {
        background-color: #bcbbbb !important;
        color: black !important;
    }
    [id*="Category_"],
    [id*="Category_"] * {
        background-color: #bcbbbb !important;
        color: black !important;
    }
    strong.HasNew.NewCommentCount,
    strong.HasNew.NewCommentCount * {
        background-color: #323232 !important;
        color: #3abe46 !important;
    }
}

`

1982FootballWax · September 27, 2026 7:00AM

trying again hopefully formatted correctly by this lame forum software:

    @-moz-document url-prefix("https://forums.collectors.com/") {
        .Frame-content {
            background-color: #a7a6a6 !important;
            color: black !important;
        }
        #vanillaCompatBodyBg {
            background-color: #bab9b9!important;
        }
        div[id^="Discussion_"],
        div[id^="Discussion_"] * {
            background-color: #b9b8b8 !important;
            color: #000000 !important;
        }
        [id*="Discussion_"],
        [id*="Discussion_"] * {
            background-color: #b1b1b1 !important;
            color: black !important;
        }
        [id*="Comment_"],
        [id*="Comment_"] * {
            background-color: #bcbbbb !important;
            color: black !important;
        }
        [id*="Category_"],
        [id*="Category_"] * {
            background-color: #bcbbbb !important;
            color: black !important;
        }
        strong.HasNew.NewCommentCount,
        strong.HasNew.NewCommentCount * {
            background-color: #323232 !important;
            color: #3abe46 !important;
        }
    }

1982FootballWax · September 27, 2026 7:01AM

^ ok that one looks good , not being able to edit is par for the course given the fecal quality of the new forum code

1982FootballWax · September 27, 2026 7:02AM

Sample pic:

joeykoins · September 27, 2026 12:45PM

I hear ya guys!
BAD👎
Like I posted in another thread about the same conversation.
"I would love to see our dear friend, RickO's, response from all of this!"

ElMagoStrikeZone · September 28, 2026 11:43AM

Hurrah! Hurrah! My old format is back!

bgr · September 28, 2026 11:51AM

Now I miss the new old format.

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

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