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Very nice :)

Nice but it did not seems to last very long. I guess there are migration problems which kept the site down when it was implemented and now seems back to the older but familiar environment.

I personally like this layout better.

I liked it, weird how it came and went

It is probably a sneak preview .... a teaser for what's to come.

OMG. what happen? Will it be back?

be good as long as all you lovely people r here still. :stickout:

Originally posted by eddy2099
It is probably a sneak preview .... a teaser for what's to come.

I would put my money on the fact that something was not working right and it all went horribly wrong :)

True true. It has been up and down during the past couple of hours and earlier had a mySQL error.

I think if it is too troublesome, sticking to the original design is good enough for me. The purpose of WHT is for its people and discussions and not because of its design.

I dont like the new plans anyway.

Its fine as it is.

The Directory will kill a lot of the discuss/requests.

I hope they don't allow hosts who are band on the forum to include themselves in the directory, otherwise it will just start a bunch of threads "What do you think of ********? They are in the WHT directory".

yeah im sure they though of that. But they should continue from these discussion,s otherwise a lot is lost. at the end of the day, they are doing VERY well and should be happy with it. They dont have to be 'hip and trendy' to get discussions flowing

I am glad they got back to the old and more stable format but I miss the quick reply box at the bottom.

True, even if it is the vanilla plain and very default design which comes with VBulletin, people would still come. They would come for the discussion and not for the design.

My brain likes the new look. It's just a matter of my eyes adjusting to it.

The new look is great.... Much much better than the old Web Hosting Talk style... That would be great if we can switch styles in the future..

pretty nice

i like it.. its not totally different but looks alot better , graphicwise anyhow

New one is nice, but I liked the old on better; its simplicity just made it easier to use/navigate. :)

hmm this one has a pretty cool/modern look, but i prefer the old look better for simplicity's sake. however im sure after some adjustment and getting used to this, it'd be fine :)

Like new LOOK and new features! just have to get used to it :D

I like the new look also:) Great job ravio!

Like changes for me, good temaplate, reliable for me

Thanks!

If any of you want it(like me):

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/?styleid=3

New design(better in action but don't like the buttons at all):

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/?styleid=4

Well, at least I can see there are two ads on each page which means WHT is getting more $ than before. ;) Btw, the online/offline status is cool too. :stickout:

Like the look. Came by earlier it was down, but this looks great.

Are they still posting ads for other sites, or just rackshack? Haven't seen any other ads, since I've been on.

I agree. This is a nicer theme, but dont like the buttons (profile/PM/ect...)
Nice work guys.

Too busy now. Not enough layout. Clean, fast load before. Searches don't work. Same great info, though. :-)

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Pretty Sweet. I'll take an ugly functional forum any day of the week.

-Brendan

The site is slow and painful. Hopefully they can do something about that....:eek:

The font is also harder to read too. :rolleyes:

looks good :)

Another thing, I don’t like the fact all the thread list is shown in bold. It’s better making it in non-bold and having the stickys show with a bold prefix.

I already like the new feature over on the right, go directly to the last post.

It will be a real time saver for me. No longer will I have to endure the trivial and irrelavent posts of others, and I will still be able to post my own.


:D

I could hardly care less about the appearance, just the functionality and, at least for me, it appears to be much slower.

For me its much slwer, too. Every single page takes forever to download (i'm on cable). For that reason I prefer the old fast WHT.

Sorry, but functionality is more important on this end.

Incognito

You obviously were not a visitor to my websites prior to my upgrade. I was getting complaints all the time that my pages loaded too damn fast or that features always worked. Now that I added a lot of unnecessary frills, I no longer get those kinds of complaints.

General looking is good, but fonts are wrong i think.

Can't they just add it as an additional style, I like the old one better.

To whoever's listening:

I haven't read through this whole thread yet, but I have two immediate observations:

1 - The board is S-L-O-W, particularly when loading threads. Not just a little slow, but annoyingly, aggravatingly slow. Reminds me a lot of an old html-based UBB setup.

2 - The bold font in the thread list is a bit hard on the eyes.

I can appreciate the hard work that somebody put into the new design, but it really needs some tweaking before it's ready for primetime, IMO.


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Originally posted by phision.com
If any of you want it(like me):

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/?styleid=3

Much better. You rock - thanks.

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It is drastically slower.

I used to make a post, preview it and then post it all in the same browser. Now I work on other things while I wait for the "Preview Post" field to come up, go back to work while I wait for the actual post to come up. I also don't like the animation on the "New Post" buttons. The front page looks like a billboard in Las Vegas...

I'll take the old look and speed over this flashy, slower forum any day. I don't come here for looks I come here for information.

I'm with the others, I'm on a cable modem and things are noticeably slower than before. Don't really care for the new font style either...

hello,

1 - Slow

2 - Slow

3 - Slowwwwww

thank you,

wooo - i like the old skin more than ever!

New look is OK, except for the animated icons on the homepage. They are a gratitutous distraction.

How slow you ask?

56k--------------------19.66 seconds
ISDN (128k)---------10.93 seconds

For just the front page view......

If you are married to the new skin, perhaps you could activate the option in the UserCP to have a choice for Members to use the old skin?

I went back to the old layout for now

Yeah, It's loading very slow some of the pages! Especially when you want to reply or create a new topic!

Yup, the new design is definitely very slow. Each time I open up each thread, it gave me a blank screen for about 10 seconds before something appears. The old design was zappy and quick. I am beginning to miss that.

On top of that, I am getting a couple of times when nothing appears and also some MySQL errors to boot with the new designs. And just now for several hours, couldn't even post anything.

I guess it is just progress and we have no choice but to live with the inconvenience.

Originally posted by AOKevin
I went back to the old layout for now

How did you do that?

I guess it is just progress and we have no choice but to live with the inconvenience. They could give us a choice. In the UserCP there is an option that would allow you to choose the board skin. I don't see it here so I am assuming it's been disabled.

I like anything new :) ... can you add a "Login" at the top?

True a choice to go back to the old design would be a very wise move. This new design is way to slow to be productive.

The new design looks very nice, but I was finding it slow also - sometimes the pages take a while to open & format. The text is a bit bunched up also - less easy to read.

Just some glitches to work out - nothing more. Being able to select the old style as an option would be a great idea.

I like it. Looks good, clean. But, Loading is slower than the older one.. But, with time, everything gets better.
-Max

Originally posted by pgrote
How did you do that?


http://www.webhostingtalk.com/?styleid=3

Click above to go back to the old skin!

Woo its fast again. The new skin looks lovely but is no good for such an active forum!

Originally posted by UH-Matt
Click above to go back to the old skin!
THANKS!

Can you modify your profile to make that permanent? I looked and couldn't see it.

Thanks again! I can't believe how much faster it is.

I think it sticks.

Close your browser and open it and come back.. should stay as old skin :D

It's mostly nice looking and all, but I have the same complaints as others. The font is hard to read, the animated icons on the index are a bit distracting and even on cable the board is noticeably slower :( I do like the colors and layout is not bad. What happened to the location bits on the side?

nice layout. i like it.

I switched to the old design and love it so much and will stick with it as far as I can. It is fast snappy and familiar.

I switched back as well....

I was getting all kinds of loading issues here with that new skin, blank pages, not found, MySQL errors, and a few other ones. Once I switched back it's moving right along as it always did.

i am having alot of problems w/ this new look, sometiems it doesnt even work/load

how can i change back to the old one? i looked in the control panel and coundlt find anything, please pm me

Originally posted by propcgamer
i am having alot of problems w/ this new look, sometiems it doesnt even work/load

how can i change back to the old one? i looked in the control panel and coundlt find anything, please pm me


Read about 6 posts up! or... click.... here....

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/?styleid=3

FWIW - The new style is very slow for me - to the point that it's un-usable. I'm glad the old style is back. I hope it's here to stay.


I'd also like to add that I actually prefer the large advertisements in the old style. Part of the reason I don't like banner ads is that to fit a large amount of information, they are all animated -- something I personally find very distracting. I would rather have a larger format, non moving advert with all of the relevant info presented to me at once than a flashy, hard to understand distraction.