ty for the link...

maybe the main page link will be fixed sometime soon, there still seem a few things need tweaking.

Everything in one of my group's forum is cramped:

http://imgur.com/9NpZJ

New comments is too far bellow and it's as important as notes... Notes should be in the right frame, between alerts and ratings... As it used to be...

That's it... New format are looking good... Thank you very much...

as for me home page is OK... I mean notes above new comments... but we need to have MESSAGE more visible and attentionable

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Notes in the right would give better balance between columns...

the design is awesome.. but its horrible on mobile browser.

i use opera mini 6.5 i can't add comments under vote chess or anywhere else.. please fix it.

Thanks for all efforts.

There are many things i love in new design.

The biggest problem remaining is with my iphone-4 with Safari. i think you already know what i mean. it's almost impossible to use it now. and i wish it will be fixed very soon, as i can't always catch a PC to do my administration jobs for my groups.

Thanks in advance to Staff for fixing my problem! 

I agree strongly with Denverhigh.. have been saying along, ALL the text is too weak.. nothing is strong on the pages.. there's no contrast,  no sharpness, no brightness. It's wishy washy. I also agree the text size could go a fraction larger, though I can live with the size that it is, but at the very  least there needs to  be some solid black on these pages.. mixing grey with light font coloured text just keeps it all looking dull.

+1

it would be very very useful for group admins to have a sound alert when someone join or leave the group chatroom.  

its good to have changes , been saying it since i have joined. finally u guys did it. thanks

posting still doesn't work from Firefox 3.6. Please help :)

Erik,

You say it's not technically possible to go back to the old design. In terms of coding, and barring resetting the servers, you're probably right. But in terms of the interface, you can probably create a lot of options that grab the original layout for those who want to.

A list would be:
- make the order of alerts customizable. Now it is tournament games, vote chess, team matches, messages, group activity, comments (don't know where you put individual games, as I have no current alerts on those). Some of us will focus on tournament games and want those on top. Other will want team matches there, other comments (in fact, serious vote chess revolves around those) - so there's not going to be one order that makes everyone happy. So make it customizable! Add an up and down arrow for each category.

- add a menu option that gives the menus as a single column. There's simply no way the same ease-of-use can be had with a single layout for both mobile devices and 24 inch screens.

- make recommended themes for different browsers. I repeat: for IE the new design simply doesn't work, and that begins with the color scheme. You can promote chrome all you want, not everyone has actually the choice of a browser on each device, thanks to their IT department. In particular, we need at least a theme that offers more contrast - in colors, with black edges, etc.

Those three things would go a long way already. To put it bluntly: the annoyance factor needs to decrease by a lot before my renewal is up. If you don't want to go back to the old code, then make sure you eliminate most of the pain by adding customization.

You don't have to sacrifice a 'clean' look by adding more contrast and definition. It's getting the balance right. At the moment the balance is not right. It doesn't need major changes made, just a few tweaks will make a world of difference. 

If it was not broken, why fix it?

fix it? they broke it!!!

Hi Erik, glad to see that some of the main issues were changed and also themes, can't concetrate on my play without my theme though . I wanted to memtion that I don't see my logo. No borders of the Content, Recent activities. And my name on my profile is Green (which was yellow, after I set up the theme, it's very funny when all letters are White and Yellow, and suddenly something is Green (??????)). The same issue with colours are in Group's profiles, I think the colours should be shown as the themes are set.

I usually use black themes, so my letters are Bright colours (eg. White, Light Blue...) and they are not visible on white tabs (eg. Quotes, Recent Activities, Tab in an echess game, Tournaments and Events Calendar...) and even Tactic Trainer's tabs, it's really frustrating to border whole page to read something inside the tab. I will be happy if it would be black just like my theme.

Not all groups are shown in the Profile, I wanted to check out my groups, but there were only few groups shown in the profile. I think full list like before would be better. 

I very like the new Alerts tab, it very suits to the whole page now, very beautiful. But could be message, notes be above the games? I had to scroll down too much cause I have many games in progress and I want to check my messages first.

These are all issues currently I am facing with. 

In the other hand, new design is very nice, I very like how all things are on one page. 

Guys and gals,

please do not throw YOUR buckets of paint here!

The new look is here to stay, whether you like it or not (it involves years of hard work). You do not help anyone by saying you do not like it - you will simply be ignored. More constructive (as Erik has said) is (1) to point out bugs that can be fixed, and (2) suggest changes you would like of the current format that can be implemented to make it less unlikeable.