Eww..? Those stars have to go. Sorry. But no. Huge and looking like... well. Lets just not go there. It doesn't look professional. I couldn't give a toss about an avatar or a signature. I want FAST. It took 5 minutes just to load the front page of this excuse of a forum. I absolutely LOATHE the color scheme. Sorry but no thanks. I don't like bright, it hurts my eyes. Quite frankly... I would prefer to have some subforums in here, CLEARLY set apart. I don't know yet if replying to a thread will bump it to the top. If it doesn't then the entire exercise was a waste of space. I want a subforum where useful posts can be STICKIED. If stuff is stickied without a subforum, soon you have to go to page 16 to get at the new posts. God... when they said new forums, I was expecting new forums. This is slow as a dog, diabolical to look at, and by the looks of it, no more functionality than the old forums. The only thing that was added was avatars and smilies. 38 seconds to go from the main forum list into the Poser forum - and that's after I hit the BACK button! It had already loaded it once, it should be faster the second time I hit the link... It begs the question: "What the HELL?" Sure this is in the "Teething stage" but no professional outfit I know wallops in a change like this without TESTING IT FIRST and getting FEEDBACK from users BEFORE GOING LIVE. Geebus...

Silke