As always, my thoughts when you change something fundamental (like the font) every few months...

The problem with changing the look of something like the forum is that it's a resource for lots of people. There is something to be said for familiarity and consistency in design. I mentioned this to my friend Alex who runs a design agency who said that it's a poor choice to keep changing the font. It's probably not a good idea for any kind of site, and from memory I don't recall any other site changing as much as this one. Once I get used to the font or some new style it changes. I actually don't mind the tags too much now, but this site seems like it would benefit from less seemingly aimless fiddling, and just being left alone for a while.

I preferred the old font.

The font looks really nice! And the small changes here and there, I like them!

@Mike, I get your feeling, I used to have the same! But the constant changing kind of grow on me! Also, lately the changes do improve the site, instead of completely change stuff like they used to!

So... nice changes Ginger, keep on the good work!

Nice refresh. Cool.

It is still really hard to see at a glance what post is new or interesting to me...

I don't come here so often since the "improved" website and the only times I do, it doesn't take long before being annoyed by scrolling through a list of posts, lost in the middle of the page, where the only thing different from one to the other, is a bunch of tags.

Thanks, friends.

I don’t come here so often since the "improved" website and the only times I do, it doesn’t take long before being annoyed by scrolling through a list of posts, lost in the middle of the page, where the only thing different from one to the other, is a bunch of tags.

SPIP, would this be more because of the topic titles themselves, or a specific design issue? What would help you figure out which ones were more "interesting" than the other?

The first things that come to my mind are: 1. too much scrolling. Why is the width so small and doesn't use more of the available space ? Add to that the labels/tags under the topics and you can't see a lot of topics at the same time without scrolling. 2. There is probably something better to find about the titles or the location of the tags. It's hard to understand what is the thread speaking about at first glance. 3. The tags at this location are of little use. They just add more space between each titles. A column for them could be great. With the possibility of sorting the threads by tags, dates, or why not authors or last posters ?

Hope this helps.

So much wasted screen space. Line spacing is huge! Today, we have beautiful screens, with great resolutions, so I don't understand why c74 use so much empty space. Very coherent with the poor decision to thicken object box lines and to increase wasted space in message boxes from Max6 to Max7.

i love the new fonts and look changes.

i agree that there's a bit too much whitespace separating posts, for my taste.