Site Update

[cilu]

Let me first say that I think it's great that changes are made and there is a commitment to improve the site.

Now, I have some comments on the changes.

The new logo looks better, that's for sure. The green or olive or what the English name of the color is, well, it's different. The forum looks unfamiliar, but I guess it's only a matter of time until I forget how it was before. I can't say it's better or worse than before, though I personally prefer blue. But in this case, you should update the New Thread and Post Reply buttons. They are still blue and don't look that nice on the olive background. But again, I prefer the old blue.

On the main site I like the menu, and the box with most popular stories (top authors is also interesting). Also the page with My comments is nice to have. On the other hand there are two things that I don't like:

• the new template has a fixed size and quite narrow (980) pixels. there is a lot of unused space on my screen, with two blue bands (the background); that could have been used for displaying the article. As it is now, I find it too narrow, and the most affected are the code blocks.
• talking about code blocks, the squared brushed background (that looks like a math notebook) is not very appealing in my opinion. The code doesn't look very distinctive. It used to be like that (and it's the same on most of the web sites), but now it's no longer like that. And the selection of the text is not very good. Only the font color changes. It's not very intuitive.

Here are some bugs that I found:

• I have noticed a problem when changing the font size. After increasing it once and then decreasing it once, the font did not have the original size. The the picture.
• In the top authors box, the Most articles show "Marius Bancila: 104 articles". I know for sure I didn't publish that many articles, so that must be a mistake there.