How do you rate the upgraded forum?

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Now that the dust has settled, most kinks have been ironed out and the colour themes have been added it's time to ask: How do you rate the new forum?

[MarkusDarkus]

Everything seems big and blocky but I'm sure I'll get used to it soon.

[game_over]

Midnight has made the forum 100% better, i'm really happy now.

[johnporter29]

Midnight has made the forum 100% better, i'm really happy now.

+1

[PyX]

6/10. It passes. - I’m now using Midnight.

I definitely preferred the old forum theme, I’d give it an easy 9.9/10. It was the best IB theme on the entire web.

The problems on the new one, as I have mentioned numerous times before :

- The site works in fixed width, and the forums in %, which results in a LOT of whitespace. It’s really hard for the eyes, even with the midnight theme. Maybe things should be uniformed.

- Everything’s square-shaped. There’s like no real personality to this theme in general, it’s completely bland.

- No Legacy theme, which would most likely fix my concerns.

- I don’t know why, but I always go over the report button first to quote someone. Then I realize that the Quote button is on the right.

To add a little more positiveness maybe, I love the new WYSIWYG editor. It’s finally working I guess.

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

Love the upgrade, other than the occasional speed issue (which i know are out of dev control) I have no complaints about it :D

[Shaun N.]

I love it since Midnight was introduced

[Rudy]

Before Darkside: 2/10

After: 9/10

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

In terms of appearance, I'd say it's the best version yet. In terms of functionality, it's a slight step back in some areas but that's IPS' fault for removing some features. With that said, I give it a 9/10.

My favourite theme is Pegasus. I simply love the shade of blue over the colours of Midnight, Darkside, etc. The other themes are great as well, especially Pro.

[Teebor]

I really Like Darkside but I have had and still have a lot of problems with pages not loading completely.

Otherwise I'm happy with the forums

[Knife Party]

like the upgrade, thought pegasus was nice, but Darkside is way nicer (Y)

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Surprised to see Pegasus have more fans than Darkside thus far.

The upgraded forum gets an 8/10 from me. There are a few niggles to get used to, but for the most part it's good. As to colour themes - I like Pegasus and Midnight the most.

[Chasethebase Reporter]

Upgraded forum gets a 10 because it's brilliant. There really isn't much else to say.

Design wise my favourite is the default Pegasus.

[White Man]

On a scale of 0 to 10 it's Me gusta.

Also, I applaud the decision to change the background color. It's a lot easier on the eyes this way.

[Sir Topham Hatt]

Very good.

Not really a fan of the WYSIWYG editor as I manually type tags anyway.

Intermittent fault with the URL tag, but I can live with that.

Currently using default "Pro" theme. Neowin in black wouldn't be Neowin.

[cork1958]

I rated the new forum version a 10. This is the best it's EVER ran as far as I can remember and that's the ONLY thing I care about.

As far as theme, I don't have a clue to which one I'm using as I've NEVER once changed it from what ever the heck loads. I think changing themes is pretty much a waste of time/resources or what ever else might be involved. Who looks at the pretty edges or anything else? I'm looking directly at the content and could care less about any colors, borders, etc. Don't mess with themes on my computers or anything or anywhere else either!

[Jan Veteran]

Very nice.

[cooky560 Veteran]

Now the midnight theme and the WYSIWYG editor are back the site is much better, but I still think some parts of IPB 3.2 are just dumb.

[Paul Ferson Veteran]

I prefer it to 3.1. Atlas had a great forum theme, but Pegasus feels much more modern. I don't think I'd want to go back to 3.1 on Neowin, because the new WYSIWYG editor is enough to keep me using the forums more than I did in the past. The way it handles MultiQuotes is easier now because you can just click the one button after marking the posts you'd like to quote. That's great for usability. My two favorite styles are Pegasus and Midnight, but I changed to Midnight as soon as it went live and I haven't changed back since. It's by far my favorite theme on Neowin, and I'd put it above the themes for the Atlas version of the site as well. I gave 10/10, but as I don't use the administrator options I wouldn't know about the issues it might have for the staff. From my end though, 3.2 is an epic success.

[jakem1]

I'm happy with the forums now that everything is finished and think that most of the improvements make up for the features and layout that was lost.

What I think needs to change is the update process. Perhaps in the future the developers could go-live once they have everything ready rather than releasing it bugs and all and then applying fixes on the live site over the course of the next couple of weeks. There's no point announcing an upgrade day when it's actually an upgrade fortnight. The testing process clearly isn't working if the actual release is so flawed.

[tiagosilva29]

Now that the dust has settled (...)

[remixedcat]

8, darkside, and the multiquote thing works nice and the speed of the forum is faster. Nice.

[cooky560 Veteran]

I agree about the multi-quote it's much better. However many things are not, for example it now takes two clicks instead of one to jump to unread posts.

[remixedcat]

I agree about the multi-quote it's much better. However many things are not, for example it now takes two clicks instead of one to jump to unread posts.

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hat's why I gave it an 8, if those were fixed it would be a 10. ;-)

[fix-this!]

i don't like the new mobile skin and i do not like the fact i cannot see whos online/offline on the forums now.