I agree with you Zahn, with this confusion going on it really messes things up for everyone - both artists and merchants. But it looks like we'll have to endure this for the next 2 months before they'll even reconsider ...sorry to be the bringer of bad news :(

Count me as unhappy as well.

Quoting from the horse from "Ren and Stimpy Show": "No sir, I don't like it." What I don't like: 1 - The default color scheme.... Bleeeechhh!!!! I changed it so it looks like #1 and #2 in picture, but when I go to the markeplace I get #3 in picture. Eeep. Hmmm... but the "sale items" link is still visible. 2 - The scroll bars on the side - hated it! First, the fonts are too small. Second, I'm used to using my scroll mouse to get to were I want to go. Now, I have to make several clicks. Also, with the forums hidden away in the scrolls, a newcomer wouldn't know what topics are available at a first quick glance. And also, I used to right click a forum link and open a new page. And oh yeah, the first forum I usually go to is Forum News. Sheash, I just spent over an hour reading through this forum.

Might as well toss in my two cents... While the logo is very nice, I personally abhor the mauve/brown color. I can not believe this is hard coded and can't be changed per personal taste. I am in hopes you all can come up with a way to have the headers not hard coded so we can have our own color choice there. I meant no offense to the artist that designed this, it is very nice, just not my personal color choice is all :-)

It's killing my eyes.... No, I don't like it, not at all...and for goodness sakes..anyone that knows anything about website design knows one of the cardinal sins is to have the resolution set so it meets what they want instead of what the majority is surfing at!! I'm at 1024x768 and I have to scroll from left to right????? That is just plain craziness!!! Hate the brown and white...the white letters make my eyes hurt and make me want to run away quickly. Could we get anymore depressing with the color scheme?? This is supposed to be an artists site...there is nothing artistic about the design...except maybe for the logo, which I'm really not that fond of either. Too cold, too mechanical...now if this was a drafting site, that would be great. The logo is good, just not appropriate for the site I don't think. Let's not even go there about the marketplace or the galleries....geez o' peezo people... Why did you even change it?? Other then that, no opinion at all... Pendy

Oh forgot to mention two other things! I have to wear glasses to read/work on textures. This site now hurts my eyes BIG TIME! From the hideous color scheme down to the small text. Also, what is up with the new layout? I now have a scroll bar at the bottom of my page & when I scroll right there is nothing over there but blank space on the other side of the links to the right....???????.....????? Yes I run it in 600X800 so I can see, cept well, now I really don't care to see this site. Can someone email me when tis safe to come back? S

Pizzaz as an artist I can name one thing I would use that "brown/chocolate/purple/greyish" whatever it is on the sidebars, but as previously mentioned it wouldnt be polite to speak of such things amongst company:)

I don't like the new Rosity look. I already had time off work brought about by eyestrain caused by spending shifts looking at a light background on a computer. That's with regulation breaks and correct lighting. I'm not that well organised at home. I changed my colours to the ones Mindvision suggested for the colours I can change, but the side bar is horrid and it's difficult to use. They are much more complimentary to the site, I just wish you would implement the rest of his design. The white writing on the side bar is not easy to read. I have to scroll down every time I want to visit a different forum (with 1280 x 1024 res) to see the pop up boxes for the forums etc... anyway, so why can't I have my list back to scroll through? In the meantime, I am always faced with a list of places to go in the market place, such as the bewildering link to Merchant Stores which takes me to a long list of merchant names. It certainly wouldn't make me enter any of the stores. It's boring, frustrating (as you scroll down the list trying not to miss the name you are looking for) and if you already know the name of the merchant you are looking for, it's almost completely pointless. There are easier ways to get to their store. If you don't know, staring at a name won't help you. The lime green im message is, um, alarming to say the least. It certainly doesn't compliment your new colour scheme. Or anyone elses as far as I can tell. So, not particularly happy. But I can live with the browns if I have to. Shanna :-)

Q: What do the new Renderosity color scheme and a Basilisk have in common? A: When you see it, it's too late. :-)

BASILISK : a mythical lizardlike monster with supposedly fatal breath and glance, fabled to have been hatched by a serpent from a cock's egg

I guess this pretty much sums up the cock and bull design we have here guys :P

I hate the new scheme. Plus: I've I create a marketplace entry with advertising text and images, I can't use hardcoded colors for myself any more. If I use darkt text colors the "old style people" couldn't read it, if I use light text colors it will be unreadable foa ll new users with default color settings. Just look into the marketplace - there are many item descriptions now which are unreadable because of the drastic change. And the new style looks sooooo... unprofessional! It really stings in the eyes for god's sake! A graphic community lifes and advertises itself by their outfit. If I would be a new user, I wouldn't register here now because of the crappy look. Seriously. J.

Okay, three basic points from me: 1. I don't like the defult color scheme. I don't think it works well, and it doesn't look stylish or fresh or artistic to me, it looks UNFINISHED. 2. I can't stand that brown, it doesn't compliment anything, and it simply doesn't look good! Notice how pretty much all the banners look worse on that brown background. It just doesn't work! 3. Personally, I'm not so sure I can get used to the drop-down menus, as I am a big fan of the "open in new window" option. That being said, I do like the new direct links to all of my "stuff" (gallery, free stuff, and so on) without having to go to my artist page first. That's my opinion. Oh, and thanks for the option to change the link colors being enabled, it really is important!

I don't post much round here but I feel I have to add my voice.
I don't like the drop down menus, too much mouse clicking for my RSI wrist.

I don't like the colours much but what I really don't like is taking away the choice. Instead of making it look one way that will never please everybody why not spend the time improving the customisation so that everyone can have it look the way that is right for them?

Being able to change the link colours again is a good start. Of course it doesn't change the side bars at all.

I don't like it. I've already posted my votes in various other threads, which include: poor default colors (mud-brown and white?), reduced functionality (mutiple mouse-clicks to go to the Poser Forum: 4 clicks using the pull-down box vs. 1 click on the old link), can't open forums in a new window, forced size of 1024x768 (in the year 2003, after 8 years of web design-studies), and so on and so on. I do have one positive thing to note, though: This time of day, there are usually 1600+ members on line. Now, there are less than 1550. Maybe this new color schene is driving people away. Hoo-ray! Less people online means faster page loading for everyone else! That also means less people shopping the Marketplace, but, hey, we can't have everything, right?

Another quick note: as of right now, the "unhappy" thread is now 64 replis long, the "happy" thread is 16 threads (though I don't know how many of those replies are sarcastic "happy" replies). So, the unhappy-to-happy ratio is currently 4:1. This doesn't take into account the people who haven't posted messages... nor the people who couldn't figure out how to get to the forum to place their vote. I would say that a 4:1 ratio of unhappuy-to-happy people would be cause enough to start resetting the site, but I seriously doubt the complaining will have any effect. Will they change it back? Let's start another poll.

The new color scheme should have been given a name: "The Shock and Awe"-color-scheme. Willy PS: I have set the colors for light gray text on dark blue background, like, in the good ol' OS/2-days ;-)

I like the logo. It wasn't the one I vored for, but it's ok. Not the best (or I would have voted for it ;o) ) but not bad at all. I love the drop down boxes, I personally HATED that long side bar. But the COLOURS :o( YEUCK! EEEEK! AARGH! PLEASE make it at least the colours the WINNER wanted! I've changed mine to those and apart from the table backgrounds it looks ok.

I'm now using MindVisions Colors. Had to lighten the text so it could be seen in the tannish-brownish grey tables. They should have accepted your entire desing MindVison and not assumed they were web designers :)

This post is dedicated to those who hate to scroll to
read a whole sentence.

My biggest complaint is about the screen resolution.
It's definitely too big. Give me the 800 x 600 any day.

I'm not too thrilled about the drop down menus, either.
I'd rather scroll down for a week than not be able to
open something in a new window.

I've changed my colors to the ones MindVision suggested,
but quite frankly, they still suck. Choice, folks, it's
all about choice.

The logo, while good, isn't very "artsy". It doesn't seem
to be very well suited for this type of community. I can
live with the new logo, though, if you'd only change -
and I'm begging here - the rest of the site back!

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ~W.Wilson Not thrilled with the new scheme. As Ellen Glasgow said, "All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."