I just can't understand some people complaining. Instead of being happy with a new, safer forum, mobile-friendly design (I for one am happy with that, most of my access to VOGONS is through mobile). Some are picky and want to complain about the font. Some other, about the colors. Only a few complaints were valid IMHO (the dithering issue) and were fixed later. Fair game. Before the new design, my only complaint was the lack of a mobile-friendly version, and now we have it. So far, amazing.
Colors and fonts will never please everyone, I know. It's a subjective thing, for example I like a classic black on white design, and I prefer fonts like San Francisco (Apple's new default), Helvetica Neue (Apple's previous default), Lucida Sans, and Menlo for terminal on Linux/macOS, and Fixedsys for mIRC, but I am not complaining because I know how hard it is for the VOGONS staff to design a website, yet alone a very good forum like this one.
For example, at work I have to deal with Moodle, its a very complex CMS for schools/training/courses to customize, but not harder or terrible than e-commerce CMS like Magento. Forums like phpBB, however, are in the same category of difficulty level.
To be fair, The Old School theme is almost the same thing used in previous forum version, and I believe the staff chose it as an option because they knew some people would not like the new default design, there is always someone that will dislike.
The Old School theme is light purple, even the link colors are the same as before. I don't remember people complaining about these colors back then. It's the one I am using because I got used to it, because I prefer the black text instead of white text. I'd be used to the default theme too, if I were using it for at least one week. The two options we have are IMO two big opposites and should be enough to please most people in the wide range between them.
The Trebuchet font is within the web safe fonts list, it's readable, it was very popular for web designs in late 90's/early 00's, it's not my first choice font, but like some people prefer to be picky and complain about "the numbers not being vertically aligned", I am not complaining. Oh well, neither Jesus Christ was able to please everyone. And to be honest, I can't even remember which was the font used in previous version.
Can we be happy with the new, fresh and better forum we have now, and go back to our retro-activities?
I come here not only because of the old software/games I like, but also because I like to see what other people are doing with old hardware, pushing the boundaries of it. It's amazing to see very old stuff being brought back to life by you people, bringing back also good memories. It's also amazing to see the work of ppl like thegreatcodeholio and DosBox-X, or keenmaster486 with the WebOne and more to make retro computers be still relevant for modern web browsing.
"Design isn't just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
JOBS, Steve.
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