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As you may have noticed, things are looking a little bit different

Here's the list of changes:
- New blog on homepage will pull in at least one interesting item of content per hour from the gallery or forums, as well as allowing specific news posts and promotion of anything we want to promote.
- On the left of every post, under the avatar and text there, is a 'filter thread' link. Click that and only posts by that user in this thread will be shown, hiding everything else. Great for catching up on those 100 page project logs without having to read hundreds of comments praising the work.
- It is not linked in elsewhere yet, but you can see the most exalted posts at: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/jforum.page?module=posts&action=listExalted
- New appearance (duh!). If you really hate it, you can switch theme to dakka classic to go back to how things were, but this is really a better theme in almost every way. Your hate might just be muscle memory annoying you, so take the time to be patient and learn the new layout.
- New appearance is the default on mobile devices now.
- Gallery home page is much more interesting, go check it out.
- PMs with no subject are now readable.

And some minor stuff:
- flag detection a little bit more accurate (99.9%)

edit: minor update done, drop down menus now working as they should be.

Commandeering your post, lego.

Oh yeah, Editing the boss! Like a boss!

I like it!

Switched back within 20 seconds.

I like it! New layout is kinda cool too.

juraigamer wrote:Switched back within 20 seconds.

Way to give it a try!

I switched back faster than 20 seconds.

I have an aversion to change! if its not broke, I don't fix it. Hell, if it is broke, I still don't fix it, I deal with it.

I swapped back and forth a few times, probably will a few more as well.
Though the black bar with all the features at the top feels a little crowded.

Like the changes to the gallery. Nice job overall Lego, keep up the good work.

Interesting... I'll adapt. I'm too lazy to switch the theme.

I like it, it seems more like a gaming site and less like one where you go to find out how much property tax you owe.

Wow, crips new look! Well done!

I was having a panic attack. I thought my OPC was broken!

The filter will be good. I'll be able to read the fictiobn without everyone getting in the middle.

n0t_u wrote:Though the black bar with all the features at the top feels a little crowded.

I agree, is it possible to have them spaced out a bit more, seems like a lot of blank space to the right, and really bunched together words.

Everything else looks hawt, i'll keep it

edit: Oooo, gallery homepage is lovely! Like the dropdown menus as well. Good effort Lego

Ha ha.

I had logged on today for a mooch and thought, "hmm. . . when did that change?"

good stuff and thanks

Vitruvian XVII wrote:

n0t_u wrote:Though the black bar with all the features at the top feels a little crowded.

I agree, is it possible to have them spaced out a bit more, seems like a lot of blank space to the right, and really bunched together words.

Everything else looks hawt, i'll keep it

edit: Oooo, gallery homepage is lovely! Like the dropdown menus as well. Good effort Lego

It is a bit bunched up, but there are a few reasons for that. First, there are a few new sections we want to add in the future which will need the space, second by pushing it into one area, there is a consistent experience across every variation of browser and screen size, making it less annoying for those of us who hop around multiple devices. I wont rule out changing the spacing, there are a lot of hidden mod and admin links up there as well which take up a lot of space so might have reduced the relative compactness for us when we were reviewing it.

The gallery homepage needs a lot of tweaking still, but version 1 is fun enough. It currently shows the top models of the last 3 months, but I'll probably change that to be a smaller time window as it wont update very frequently as it stands at the moment.

Well, I might have some trouble finding my way around the place for a few hours, but at least it's not like one of those Facebook updates that makes it all but impossible to do anything.

EDIT: Just took a little stroll through the forums. Yep, I definitely like this.

Safari has a glitch in the header which is known and will get fixed soonish. No need to report it.

Fair enough, especially if there are going to be additions in the future. Just a minor gripe really

Very nice job Lego, cheers.

I like it thanks for all the hard work Lego
...now to re-familiarize myself!

very impressive indeed, I love it!

This is worthy of the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Given that I mostly mobi-dakka, I'm liking so far thanks to tireless admins and mods for continuing to enhance geekdom!

I like it. A few little muscle-memory things I'll need to deprogram, like going to the right-hand side to log in, but so far it looks good. The thread filter especially is a good idea that I wonder why we didn't have before.

The crons rise and Dakka has a new theme.....

Still sitting there and

Lego - Does this new site specifically not work with any particular browsers (like IE6)?

I'll change back if it doesn't work for me at work, otherwise I like it.

Looking great, Legoburner!

I've not tested in IE6 as nobody supports it anymore, but it works fine in every other browser. The code for this has been active for a few weeks so all the issues have been ironed out already save for minor graphical ones in rare situations.

The new theme is awesome! Good to see that exalting now has more of a purpose...

This new layout is GREAT

Digging the new layout. Hazard stripes are great.