Waaaaay too bright. Give us styles to choose from like some other sites do.

ZOS_AlanG wrote: »

As I'm sure you've noticed, the forums got a new coat of paint today. This also includes a number of tweaks and bug fixes, such as larger font size for post text, and the ability to access older posts in the Dev Tracker. As always, we'd love to know what everyone thinks!

Wow. Awesome. The Forum looks so beautiful and majestic!!

This new color scheme is horrible please fix it

Runhent wrote: »

By the way. Maybe, my question was asked before, but... Dear ZOS, do you have any plans to add the possibility to download custom avatars?

And if not, why?

I like my sweetroll, but I want to see it more unique.

If I had to guess, they're limiting the types of avatars that can be used because the moderators don't want to spend half their day controlling the inappropriate ones people would inevitably select.

The new text color/format/something is making links pretty much invisible when they're embedded in normal text.

A proper, visible "log in" button should be added.
the forum account should be bound to the game account
The forum name should be automatically asked to be changed upon first login, or if skipped, keep prompting it in each log-in until changed or chosen to keep same.

Is there any chance we could be allowed to pick from some other skins?
While for me it's bearable, at least if I don't have a headache when I start out, I definitely preferred the eyestrain level of the darker forums.

I don't know if it's a glitch or intentional but I have the beige back. If it is intentional, thank you, thank you, a million times thank you.

I have myopia and astigmatism and the white was so hard on my eyes.

Edit: Apparently it was a glitch. Returned and the tan color was gone. Now the white hurts my eyes again.

I don't understand why you all don't realize how harsh and glaring this is.

Tabbycat wrote: »

I don't know if it's a glitch or intentional but I have the beige back. If it is intentional, thank you, thank you, a million times thank you.

I have myopia and astigmatism and the white was so hard on my eyes.

Edit: Apparently it was a glitch. Returned and the tan color was gone. Now the white hurts my eyes again.

I don't understand why you all don't realize how harsh and glaring this is.

Tab, there was some talk earlier in the thread of messing with the settings so you could get the old format back.

This is a drastic improvement to when I was last here back in November.

Well done ZOS I hereby declare you have done a GREAT job at fixing the forum.

[lets be honest, the old forum was not very good]

farrier_ESO wrote: »

Funny thing is, when the colors changed, I didn't see one message praising the new look; when the colors briefly changed back, the forums lit up with gratitude and thanks.

This suggests that the "hospital" forum skin really isn't the best fit for the people here.

While I agree with the sentiment, there were people praising the new look.

farrier_ESO wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

While I agree with the sentiment, there were people praising the new look.

Ah, OK - the above was the first I'd seen, but if there were more, then fair enough, I guess.

I was praising more the much higher degree of functionality and now...no damn spam pop ups. That said actually being able to read the text without it being on a daft background that made it even harder to read...is nice. These new forums are clean, easy to navigate and highly visible, compare them to the old one and you can easily see how much that needed kicking to the curb.

farrier_ESO wrote: »

Requiemslove wrote: »

These new forums are clean, easy to navigate and highly visible, compare them to the old one and you can easily see how much that needed kicking to the curb.

I certainly can't see that about this lifeless antiseptic travesty, but I can understand that it's a matter of taste. It's good to see that there are people who appreciate this cold and visually arid UI, I'm sure they put a lot of work into it.

Thankfully, the old UI remains, and can be seen and used by blocking the file:
esossl-a.akamaihd.net/secure/css/forum-reskin.css

(I use adblock plus for this)

That's to your personal taste and you are welcome to it of course. My problem with the old design is quite simply that the forums were far less readable. The font was dreadful for a forum and the size was also wrong, the layout of the forums too was all over the place and frankly the old forums were a complete mess. That and they were prone to serious spam ware IMO, which is despite all the safeguards I had against such things.

These new forums are clean, easy to read and well laid out. I am all for you disliking the style as I already said you are welcome to think that. Sometimes simpler is BETTER.