After what seems like forever, the forum is back online with a brand new layout. What does everyone think of it?

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1081367-its-back/
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1081382-its-back-%232/
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1081410-its-back-%233/

I dislike it. I just wish I could have my tan theme back.

Oh, and any particular reason a new thread was started after only 7 pages?

I like the way the Elder Scrolls section looks a lot. Haven't checked out any of the others yet.

It's change. We'll get used to it. No real point of bashing it much anymore.

I'm sure within a week or so they'll fix it to stretch for widescreen.

Though I'm still unclear of why they changed the star system.

I changed my vote to "I like it". Using NoSquint, it's nice. I just have to get used to all the new features.

Go back and check again, it's 7 pages, but 200+ posts. There are 30 posts per page now. You can go into Settings and change it back to normal if you like.

People need to look/read through http://www.invisionpower.com/products/board/features/lookandfeel.php before they start freaking out.

They ruined the forum ranks. You don't have to earn your stars now, you start out with 1 star and by the time you hit 1000 posts you already have 7 stars. They made the star worthless.

How does the facebook login thing work anyway?

Yes it does. I'm using it with my forum profile right now.

Yeah, you're right. Orange is looking good though.


Seriously...9 stars is just too much.

Am I completely blind now from staring at the tiny text (just installed NoSquint but haven't restarted yet- it's ridiculous I need another add-on for one site) or is there no longer any way to archive and email my messages to myself?

Yeah I don't like the new look. Gives me a headache (literally).

Yeah. I don't feel as superior anymore with my..what, 10 stars?

Nosquint helps, maybe I won't take a hiatus

Still like the old version better though.

My point exactly

I was so proud when I got my fifth star :nope:

Yea it is pretty dumb.I hope that can be fixed.


Also just noticed my location came up.Did that get fixed or did unknowingly fix it myself?

In a word, "Yuk".

Why did they have to fix what was not broken?

The screen size is now more constricted than it was in the other, making the fonts smaller and harder to read. Zooming in on the browser makes everything super-bold.

It got fixed, and for a while, the Interests also displayed.

I hope they do either that or give the Community Discussion a nice and colourful background too.

It just popped up a while ago.

If the forum is just a narrow strip in the middle of the screen you can zoom on in and the sizes will be similar to the old forums (at least they're similar for me but I was zoomed in a bit over there as well, the old forums didn't handle 1600x1200 very well).


When Bethesda had its first big update they went from an orange and black color scheme to a purple and ivory one which, at least to me, was horrendous and I seriously considered leaving. Obviously I didn't and when Bethesda updated the forums next they added the ability to chose various skins so if people didn't like the default they could change it.

Since the forums have gone live a lot of things have been tweaked and I imagine this process will be ongoing for a bit, although hopefully the devs will get the weekend off.

At the moment most people are being quite constructive with their criticisms which is great . . . the general set up isn't going to change but the devs aren't adverse to any changes - although as with the purple and ivory skin some things may have to wait an update.


They're faster for me now than they were before. It seems like Firefox also has far more problems than Crome.


It wouldn't have worked well with the additional sections that were being added and it would have eventually caused problems if Bethesda stopped updating their IPB version. I elaborated on this a bit more in my last post but this thread is moving along so quickly it's hard to keep track of everything


Actually the IPB forums were originally set up like that, and it lasted for a long time (with only devs allowed to post their second pic). Eventually we'll probably see that fully disabled or opened up to the public (probably the former)

Whenever there's a big update we often get extraneous features that can take a while to get sorted out. The system admin have their hands full with the basics to deal with a lot of these little things and they may also leave them partially enabled to see if they want to do something with them later.

You'll get used to it eventually. I don't like it, but I'll persist for the sake of the forum.

And yes, the star system is ridiculous now.

Whoever asked, the point of my post back in #3, i did it just to piss you off, because i knew someone would complain

I know, you could be an Archpatriarch or a Diviner, you can't tell by looking.

Yep, I've always been looking forward to my 5th star. Now it's pointless, people aren't going to bother to count how many stars I have now, so they certainly wont when I get more.

The rank system was perfect before, but now that everybody gets one star it's completely stupid. I'm glad even people with 0 posts feel special now. <_<

Is there anyway I can set the Orange coloured writing as a default?