The new look

Abs, the new design is fantastic, was about to share it ;]

How about one of the other styles you can choose? Bright yellow might be just your thing then.

no pink, no awesomeness

HOWEVER, blue gives you an extra point

in conclusion the new look is "no awesomeness + extra point = good"

im happy

it's a level up from the old style, i like it.

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Originally posted by lucy in the sky
Yeah, looks much better, although i'm growing a bit tired of forums with light writing on dark background

Well I hope OP never see's fit to change it as i'm colorblind and this way is the only way I can read the forums lol

Its a more modern look which i announced to be introduced in december. However I felt the need to create that look last weekend as a way not to think about an issue which worries me... but thats not important for you.

The new look - here it is (at least the first part of it).
Eventhough many graphics had to get changed and the fact that i had to edit a few thousand tables on somewhat more than 1000 templates the work took less time than i expected. This forum style will be the offical style from now on... the other styles will still be available to choose. BUT since the new style contains many bugfixes I will give NO support to the old styles anymore. They are simply outdated. Whenever i have much more time I will create other styles based on this (SWAT 2.0) style. -> yeah ive choosen the name by purpose to show that such developments do not have to take more than one year to get finished... just about 40 working hours on one weekend.
Good thing is this new style has been designed to allow the creation of other modern styles in just a few hours (so a bright style is very likely being created soon).

Next to the style update ... or better to say with the style update some further forum code updates have been done last weekend to improve the forum features. Some bugs have been fixed. A transparent png support for old IE versions has been introduced. A DDoS protection has been included. Several areas of the forum got re-arranged so information can be found faster. And last but not least this forum finally does automatically resize images -> no more screenshots and signatures which destroy the look of the forum with stupid scrollbars.

There is a last issue with IE6 that i want to get rid off this evening and a few images will also get replaced. But then the work on the forum is done for now.

Ohh I forgot to mention before that the forum main site as a calendar support now. It will show private and public calendar entries (if there are some)... the private of course only for you. So now the calendar can be used for organizing stuff much better... putting reminders on it... or managing events.
Public events (visible to everyone) can get set up by every SWAT moderator. So if Event managers want to announce their events then they should write a pm to the moderators.

Hope you like that stuff... it wont be the last change on the forum (as it always get new improvements every few months)

ok btw. the group bars on the left side right below the avatar have been put closer together so there is less scrolling involved

and the request for a bigger quick reply has been answered with a bigger quick reply

Having grown fond of the old layout, I'd have probably whined if I knew in knew advance this was going to happen. Arriving to this today was quite refreshing though, and I must say this is the best looking forum I have ever visited.

I need very very very long times to load the pages, does some1 have the same problem ?

<----same here,
depend what mean this "very, very very long time"

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Originally posted by Drakon
Having grown fond of the old layout, I'd have probably whined if I knew in knew advance this was going to happen. Arriving to this today was quite refreshing though, and I must say this is the best looking forum I have ever visited.

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Originally posted by Bond
<----same here,
depend what mean this "very, very very long time"

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Originally posted by NewPol
I need very very very long times to load the pages, does some1 have the same problem ?

Am i the only one who found the "choose forum style" yet?!?!

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Originally posted by Huor Súrion
what browser are you using, what version and what OS?
IE is really a pain in the ass for developments for webbased stuff...

The newest (was it the 8th?) isn't that bad. I would say, it is almost good, but it's no use, since still half of IE users have versions 4-6

To all those people out there: GET AN UPGRADE, DAMN IT! IT'S FREE AND EASILY DONE!!

IE8? ... how about Mozilla Firefox

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Originally posted by Spiky-
IE8? ... how about Mozilla Firefox

ofc. but for those who MUST use IE...IE8 is clearly a step in the right direction.