Well, I wasn't going to get into it, but since this thread was started, I'll go ahead and throw my two cents in as another unhappy user: I'm a web designer, and from what I'm told a pretty decent one. This new design incorporates almost every element I try to avoid in site design. 1. The color scheme by default is an assault on the eyes. A 'professional' look uses non-invasive colors such as black or white, which can be easily 'ignored' by the eye, allowing the focus to remain on the content. 2. The layout has now become more complex, and more difficult for first-timers to navigate should they manage to survive the colors. What you have listed as 'Features' at the top of the sidebar are all items that are either total gee-gaws with zero real value(the grafitti wall, for example), or items that would be used by existing members who know their way around. Meanwhile, the items that would likely be attractive to first-timers (Galleries, Marketplace, Forums) are either tiny hard to read text links at the top, or drop-down menus that don't immediately show the full range of what's offered at a glance. To make a long story short (too late), the new design is totally inverse to what it takes to draw new clientele, and it makes the existing clientele (most of us do spend money here) nauseous. Allowing the user to semi-customize the look of the site does no good whatsoever in the case of a first-timer who is turned off by the first look at the front page. And removing the ability for existing users to fully customize the look of the site is just a bad move commercially...don't give a client power, then cut them off...you end up losing clients. I saw mentioned somewhere that these changes affected 7% of the existing userbase. Now 7% doesn't sound like a big number...but Renderosity has bragged mightily about having over 100,000 registered users. 7% is SEVEN THOUSAND USERS...not a group I'd wanna be ticking off... That's my opinion, like it or don't...thanks for the opportunity to vent off the steam... ChromeTiger