New site!

[Ron B]

 I am very Impressed with this New Look.

[Belza]

*sigh*

What machine are you using? What OS is on it? What browser have you got and what version of the browser is it you are using? Is your browser up to date? Are you running any plugins? Are they up to date?

It's pretty clear the new layout hasn't been tested across a reasonable range of systems yet. I'd be patient and wait for them to finish it off before mucking about too much with your own stuff first, though. If everything else is working for you, it's the forum's problem, not yours.

But no-one can do anything about it if you aren't sharing basic details of the problem you are having. You're effectively phoning the AA and saying "My car has broken down on a road in England. It's got trees along the side of it."

I am operating a Windows 7 PC only about a month old with IE 9 on it.  All updates are up to date for both.  I have recently emptied the cache and I have no problems with any other pages apart from this forum where like someone else mentioned the black background messages are not visible unless I highlight them by running the mouse over them.

[Mike]

In that case it's 50/50 because while I can't speak for v.9 Internet explorer tends not to stick to established web standards. The forum works a treat for me on win7 using Chrome, so give that a go. It could be they've not optimised the forum for what is a relatively new and unused browser like I.E. 9

For the webmaster it might be helpful if everyone struggling to read it can say what browser they are using, if indeed its an optimisation issue. In the meantime Chrome on win 7 is a goer. It imports I.E. settings and runs each window as a separate process and uses the website rendering engine, so it's an easy and stable alternative to migrate to.

[Hughie]

Firefox 3.6.13 - works fine

Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13.  Can't see the text on the black background posts unless I scroll over it - can see smileys and quoted text from earlier posts though.  The grey background posts are readable.   I know I shouldn't be surprised about things not working in this version but I'm using it somewhere where the upgrading isn't in my control.

[Viv Savage]

Firefox and AOl definitely work for me! 

[lotus]

Firefox 12 and win vista/7 -> no problems reading text on a black background,
don`t like the new board, it comes with white stripes on both sides (starting org-page stripes are black, looks better
and: what is an avatar? can`t see someone has one 

aol is not an operating system, it`s (was) a provider (I thought the company has changed so many times aol no longer exists - only the name)

[witch]

Good evening Lotus ,
an avatar is a picture that you can choose .
I had a great avatar with a raven on a gravestone for years now but when the forum got the new design my avatar got lost 
And lots of members had a avatar and yes you are right at the moment nobody has an avatar so you cant see them....I really love to have my raven back .....
cheers witch

[lotus]

Hello Witch,
that was a kind of a hoax (my way to say I can`t see the avantars I know most people have (I have none to control this))
and I hope this problem will be solved asap 
cheers Lotus

[mudgeek]

I'm using Mac OS X and Safari 4.1.3. and the new site looks a tad messy for me (i.e. alternating post colors). But if a change is gonna come so be it!

[Juliefrazz]

I quite like it now.... thought it was a bit 'busy' when I first saw it, but it's grown on me.

(Shame we've lost our avatars, though).