Hate to be a spoilsport, but are we stuck now with the default grey/blue color scheme ? I had my preferences set to white on black and a MUCH larger fontsize before, but now all I seem to be able to change im "my options" is to hide forums ??? stahlratte

I don't have an answer, but I want the same one stahlratte posed (no pun intended). :-)

hopefully you'll be able to customize it, this looks cheap as it is now, rosity has always been a nice looking site :tt2:

Ditto, the font is so small & the colors are blindingly bright...it's killing my eyes:blink:

The font size and colours are ok for me but I want to make the width larger. At the moment I have the forum in a strip down the centre of my screen.

It's possible that they will introduce a selection of forum appearances in time. I think they are doing the basics right now and will work on "extras" once the change over is completed.

Can I undo this whole thing? Man why do people have to mess with stuff? I know that change can be good but geeze. The post headers were WAY easier to read before this change. Now it looks like a big huge list of hard to read junk. AND it's slower to top things off.

Quote - The post headers were WAY easier to read before this change. Now it looks like a big huge list of hard to read junk.

graphic design has never been renderosity's strongsuit.. it should be possible to put together some combination greasemonkey script / custom css page to sooth this beast.. and where is the RSS? you want us to sit through the slow load times just to see a list of the forum topics? geeze.

One thing i think is that the old forum was i believe on the renderosity.com site and this one is on market.renderosity site. Its faster to go back to the rest of the site by clicking [x] away and re open the other site..... But hey its up for 30 minutes lets give e'm some time to get it all perfect :thumbupboth: CB

Quote - " Quote - "and where is the RSS? "

Now you be talking - oh for RSS

Agreed I hate bright backgrounds looks very cheep

White hurts my eyes. Eight years and several cornea burnings, my eyes can't take bright white. :b_angry:

Quote - "The font size and colours are ok for me but I want to make the width larger. At the moment I have the forum in a strip down the centre of my screen."

Ditto. Wouldn't it be nice if the code people made the width 100% of the screen?

I really hate the color too...and the forum STRIP up the middle... and teeny font...and hard to see links to find my way back to the main forum once I hit post...argghhhh!! But who are WE to complain, it is "not our site". Sorry, just really unhappy with it all...if the galleries go to white, BLAH!! I want to see art on black so the focus is on art, not the junk around it... afraid of gallery change....

I hate this, won't be posting much or reading much. Liked it better the way it was before. This looks like it was taken out of the package and dumped on the server. Too bad was one of my favorite sites. See you. Marque

Gotta say I'm not too keen on the style either. The colors don't bother me so much, but the strip down the center coupled with the font sizes sure do. I hate having to squint even with my glasses on. I also miss the right/left hand menu with the dropdown boxes. The site was a lot easier to navigate. How come they lumped the fourms with the marketplace? Is it just becaus those are the only two things converted so far? I also miss my IM message notifications.. sigh

Quote - ".if the galleries go to white, BLAH!! I want to see art on black so the focus is on art, not the junk around it... afraid of gallery change...."

You think the forums are bad..LOL..so do I but you haven't see anyting yet until they convert the galleries...now that's going to be really bad. And I think it's going to look just as bad as the forums and be as confusing.

Everyone else just seeing forum thread initial topics only -- without a visible listing of the replies?

Ya...just a listing of topics and the number of replies...just like all the other forums in the world... blah! I will sometimes click on a "reply" as it is a particular one I want to read...

Quote - "Wouldn't it be nice if the code people made the width 100% of the screen?"

What is it with designers these days? - seems like nearly every second site or CMS I visit is only 75 - 80% width - it's damn annoying :m_letdown:

Same here I would like to have at least a black background the white ones looks like ordinary forums over the net.

Vote for variable width of the strip! Vote for the full customization of colors and font sizes! Vote for styles! Vote for making the listing of replies visible back again! I know it's rather impossible tho Annnd! Vote for making these yellow stars go away! But at least it doesn't have "Notify me on Reply" on by default :laugh: my $ 0.02 anyway :biggrin:

well, i for one do not want the text to spread out over 100% of my screen; that's way too wide for reading relatively short messages. it looks good to me as it is now, but i also don't have a weird narrow strip in the centre. this might well be affected by the profile settings -- i have my menu set to "right", and that results in the forum sitting to the left of it, taking up about 4/5 of the screen. the colour scheme does hurt my eyes -- while most people seem to like black on white, i hate it with the consuming passion of a colourful universe :). but i expect that, like the marketplace conversion, we're seeing only the initial phase right now, and additional features will be added as the bugs are ironed out. in the meantime, a click of a button makes my browser switch colours; i love opera.

colours...yech! style is not to pleasant either hopefully this is still being worked on Rawn

going by a post in the community forum ..the colours are here to stay unless your using firefox in a few weeks it'll quiet down & no one will care,(shit)happens with every change : Cheers

Yep. So is the fixed-width strip in the center of the screen. I would suspect, pleonastic, that you have a lower screen resolution than the people who are seeing it as a strip. I'm at 1280x1024, and the forum + sidebar are covering about 80% of the screen. People who are at 1600x1200 are going to see it covering even less space. We're also not getting any BB Code. They want to re-sell the forum software.

no, i am at 1280x1024 as well. maybe it's a browser issue? i'm using opera 8.53. the decision of the PtB to not offer basic stylesheets so that people can change to colours and font sizes that don't hurt their eyes bothers me a lot (stacey said in the community forum that yeah, it was "fun" to change colours, but it'll just take a little while to get used to the new forums -- i suggest people with vision issues express their opinion of how "fun" it is to have one's eyes burn). choosing branding over usability is just ... foolish. the lack of BBcode doesn't bother me at all, on the other hand. i prefer sites use html instead of other coding solutions. they want to re-sell the forum software? rolls eyes. a less-capable phpbb imitation is needed by whom exactly?

I offten post graphics in the fora (forums) to iliustrate som point or other. The graphics are all messed up now, sometimes my graphich even appear in other peopls postes :( The new search facility is even worse than the old one, which is saying a lot! I wish they would revert to the site update before last, but I doubt that will happen. Let's hope they get things working better soon. It is still early days, but there are a hell of a lot of issues need sorting here.

I was using Opera up until yesterday. It was causing me all kinds of problems here, and I had to keep hitting refresh 5 times in a row. Plus I can't make the Java work, and Flash doesn't always work, either. :sad: It's too bad, because I was really starting to like the browser itself. Anyway, I'm using SlimBrowser (again) now. Some day I need to get a clone army and have them go out and build me a decent browser with all the features I want. Wait, what were we talking about? Oh, the screenwidth. Yeah. Maybe it's all the same and it just bugs some people more than others?

I'm browsing on Firefox on a 20 inch screen set to 1600 x 1200 and I've got approximately two inches of white space on either side of the forum thread. This isn't terribly bothersome to me as I'd hate to have to deal with it spread across the length of the screen anyway. The colors don't bother me either as I've had rendo set to default colors anyway for a while now but I can understand where it might bother some with vision problems. However the issues I don't like at all are the lack of sidebar menu to navigate the whole site from here and the lack of IM message updates in here. :P I liked being able to navigate directly to another forum from here without having to go back to the main forum page..or to choose my community to browse in.

The really odd thing I've noticed reading thru all the preceeding posts is that I've not had a 'cosmetic' change at all since the re-vamp of the site. The other stuff all changed but all my colours and font sizes, stuff like that stayed the way I had it before....Only difference is I figger is that I use a browser called Crazy Browser...a very fine and it seems, long memoried browser. I do like the little stars, but then I do have a predeliction for Stahrs....LOL pax et lux bobbystahr

I have to unsubscribe...too much "spam" in my mail box...and I went to the community forum and said if all this does not get fixed I am speaking with my money and not shopping here after I delete my account. It's ugly, slower now, hard on the eyes and just not user friendly and I HATE to see what the galleries will be like with this coding! Yes...I read that the galleries ARE next! :(

I don't like the change either. It looks like a kids' site and is just not as functional. But you can change your font size. Copy the below text and paste it into your style box (click on My Options above). .forum_message_cell { font-size:16px; font-weight:normal; color:black; } Sixteen was good for me. I also changed the font weight to 'bold' and it worked. But it also changed everything to italics, so I put it back to normal. Don't forget to click the 'Save Changes' button.