So logged on this morning and my whole world was turned upside down. Is this a test or permanent change?

In reply to Post #1
It's the way forward, new site Karls been working on

I like it!

Seems much better on mobile, dont have to scroll so much 👍

Big improvement 👍

I only access the site via mobile. So this new look will hopefully be a lot easier to use.😀🤔

Huge improvement. No longer feels like I'm back in the 1990's 😂

Somebody has to moan about it.

Personally, on my PC, I don't like it, two different sized fonts with a big difference in size between the two, and some of both in bold or greyed out text, its causing havoc with my eyes with them having to constantly focus on the different texts.

Plus, I can only see a few posts at a time so I'm having to do more scrolling than I used to do, I used to be able to just sit back and see virtually every post especially the new posts without scrolling much before turning to the next page if I had too. To increase the amount of posts visible, I'm having to zoom out to 60%.

And just checking it on the mobile phone, once again, too much scrolling to go through the posts is needed to make it a pleasurable experience. Just seeing a maximum of 6 posts on the screen to me is rubbish.

Think I will be giving it more of a miss, than just reguarly having a look quiet often.

I seem to have lost all my private messages,including some important info on my upcoming France trip!

Glad that the new UI has been met with, mostly, positive thoughts.

Now that I have got my finger out and reengineered it all, I am currently in the mood for doing more developement work and adding features.

@Zack: Totally agree that everything it NOT perfect. I have spent quite a lot of time surfing and tweaking colours etc but most days I see a page and wonder WTF I was thinking, and try to make it better. So please do point out anything that's pants, it's in everyone's interests for me to make it better and I am happy to do so.

I you prefer the 25 year old design as it works better for your needs, that's cool...I have left the old site running here:
LINKY POO™ http://old.carpforum.co.uk

Both sites (User Interfaces) point to the same database, so you can read/post to your hearts content on the old UI if that's what you want.
The only thing I will have to do is disable the PM sending on the old site as I rewrote the PM system and so old/new are not compatible, sorry (the new one is much better though, you'll thank me once you've used it a bit) 👍
I intend to leave the old PM ssytem in place on the old site for reading historical PMs, I am doing my best to ensure that you guys don't lose any functionality or info whilst offering you a choice of 2 sites to use.

Whilst re-writing the site a couple weeks ago I did actually have multiple Topics page layouts and multiple Message page layouts. You could pick whichever layout you liked best from the settings page. Some were more spacious, some more cramped. After a few days of tweaking they all started to look very similar and so I ended up with just two of each.
If you surf the site on your mobile you might notice the pages are called TopicsMobile.asp and MessagesMobile.asp
Whereas on a bigger screen you surf using TopicsDesktop.asp and MessagesDesktop.asp

Once the virtual dust has settled on the new design I'll try and get some new templates done again, but better (less rushed!) this time and then you can decide which works best for your chosen surfing device(s) and set it in Settings.

If anyone spots any bugs, of things they don't like feel free to send them to me via PM (on new flavour site) or via iMessage/WhatsApp if it's easier for screenshots/photos to 07463 284728

I am not offended by criticism, all I have been doing for the last couple weeks is criticising it myself trying to gradually make it better day by day

Some great upgrades, many thanks.

I personally like it.
I hardly ever post that often, but I’m going to try and change that.
I do always look in a few times a day though to get my fix.
Thanks for keeping on with it, this is the only form of social media I use apart from an email account, so nice to see what’s new e.t.c

I think that if this was a new Forum I was visiting I would probably not think anything of it, but after 20 years it’s a bit of a shock, takes a bit of getting used to. I suppose it’s a bit like after 20 years of marriage to the woman who had your three kids and spent most of her life working her tits off then waking up next to her and she’s a slim blond bimbo. Not at all bad but a bit of a shock and unfamiliar. Those of you who use Tackle-Trader and remember the original blue layout, then the green and now the white with rating stars, search functions etc will probably know what I mean. It’s an evolution but still takes some getting used to.

I don’t think I’ll return to the old format. I’ll muddle through this one until it becomes second nature.

In reply to Post #7
Oi, I liked the 90's 😂😉

In reply to Post #1
It's a yes from me and a yes from him 👍

No annaying adverts pushing up the page

Well done Karlos🙏