The Maserati LIGHT styling looks extremely similar to the old site if you ask me and we are constantly tweaking. By the end of next week we should be done.
I think what people are experiencing is that it doesn’t feel like home. The old Forum was live for 8 years so any change will lose the personality but in time this place will feel like home.
80% of users access on a smartphone so the number one goal was to cater for this.
The 8 year database is 9Gb, the new one is half a gb so runs much faster as the images (8.5gb) are not stored in the database.
We still have some server errors and performance issues but I guarantee all will be fixed. My company are spending all next week (that’s another £4K of chargeable labour donated) to finalise.
You will see the recent threads on mobile has been increase in size.
The other outstanding items other than minor bugs are to get the league table back up, style the post page as the old one (you will see the quote boxes are the same and text colours are similar) plus get the unread/read colours of thread titles working....which is being a pig.
After that we will be developing a more comprehensive classified system.
If we stand still, the Forum will fade, we have to keep pushing forward to keep the site, legal, fresh and engaging.
Thank you all