My two coppers -

I can't stand forums that have so much space reserved for.. nothing, and little space reserved for actual posts. Sure, I'm on a widescreen monitor, but there's a great deal of dead space on the page. It's always been like that, so there's nothing new, there. But, if they're redesigning the forums as well as the site, they need to keep that in mind.

Like other posters, I don't like scrolling through blank real-estate, just to get to the meaningful content.

(Not really impressed with the background color, either. But, everyone has their own color prefs.)

 

PS - You've got CSS style sheet options available to the forum users. How about packaging up a few and letting users select a choice out of drop-down box if they'd like? That way, users could have a variety of different chocies. You've got the CSS open, it'd be a waste if it wasn't available to us ignorantof-the-ways-of-coding-CSS peeps. :D You could even host a competition for developing that, if you'd like. I'm sure some CSS-Geeks would like to play with creating their favorites.