I am confused
 

what happen to the color??? AHHHHHH!!!! :eek:

Abe Babe has permission from Sydney to use her old designs from the early incarnations of the Oddworld Forums, namely those that were hosted by ezBoard. While the Forums have been down and being transfered to the new server, the temporary ezBoard that was set up used this, Sydney's 'Munch's Oddysee' theme, so it surprises me you're all of a sudden surprised. I guess you may just have been away in the past week, which would be a very amusing anecdote, I suppose. :fuzcool:

This design is a lot more fast-loading, and can be used by people with slow connections. For those with more fancy tastes, the Industrial theme and an updated Native theme will be able to be chosen. However, Abe Babe mentioned the transfer feature for these between vB2 and vB3 is inadequate or non-existant, hence she is having to re-create them.

Hope this clears things up! :fuzgrin:

While this design is faster than the old design, I know of forums some ten times larger than this, that have far superior graphics and color schemes, that still load even faster than this one does.

Conclusion: This forum is hosted on a crap server.

It's still better than the last server, so we're on the way up. It's not like it even particularly matters. I'm bored of the way society keeps damanding faster things. Obviously with the tediously slow there's some justification, but since these pages are opening in just a couple of seconds, there's no reason to complain.

Yeah. OK.

But I'm still going to complain, just to make everyones' lives a misery.

shortly after I posted this, i noticed that Abe Babe posted a thing about this being on vbulletin 3.0


and i have been gone for the last 2 weeks

I like this design still just because it reminds me of when I first joined a couple years back. I'll have to see once the native and industrial are back up which ones I like the best. :)

*utilizes the beloved quick reply*

This style was used for a good while, and nobody ever complained. Then again, you're justified to. Perhaps, if it could actually be worked out, you could help create a design to your choosing. Eh?

No, we are not on a super fast server. We are on a shared server, and not a dedicated one. Meaning, our CPU and server load is shared with other people. We simply could not afford to host the OWF on a dedicated. $100+ US is already outrageous, but we live in Australia, and our currency isn't exactly helping us any in this matter.

This is good, because it does what we need it to do.

Alcar...

Hey, I'm not complaining. It loads fast for me, so I'm happy. It's better than it was.:fuzwink: And the Sydney theme is just fine, although I'm swithcing back to Industrial as soon as it comes back!:D Anyway, instead of complaing...I'm going to give Alcar and Abe Babe a little round of applause.

*claps*

-oddguy :fuzcool:

You guys are just sssooo lousy. Here are AbeBabe and Alcar having to pay for a new server, and you have no idea what sort of troubles they went through to get this forum the way it is today. This is my first time visiting in a long while, but I'm happy with things now, just the way they are!

*wild clapping* Thanks ^^

~Miss Odd Serenity

Believe I could not agree any more with you....

So the fact that Abe Babe and Alcar worked hard mean that we can't express our opinions on this current theme? Oh well jee shitty whizz miss Cenility, me and hobble bobble hobo up there were actually having a "discussion" about this very issue.

I guess it proves me right that negative opinions aren't always ****ing welcome.

Hypocrite. (Hobo, not you)

Actually dipshit, i was critisising other people's opinions, which isn't supressing them at all.....

Supression has nothing to do with it. I personally CANT supress others opinions, yet in other conversations you have spoken to me as though I have already done so.

You remain a hypocrite, and you won't be able to argue your way out of it. You agreed with someone who thought it was lame to express negative opinions of other people's hard work - yet when I suggested the same thing, you disagreed.

Im going to take full advantage of your contradiction to get back at you for treating me like shit when I made a reasonable request.

Paranoid hypocrite.

Ok, I won't bother.....

you always make peoples life a misery Death. Maybe because you dont have one, or maybe cause your just so sad. So if its that time of the month, put a tampon on, shut up and leave Max alone.

People can complain about the style, but Miss Odd was stating the point that we did indeed work hard to get the forums back online. I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't lash out at everyone and anyone, especially when they gave you the courtesy to not name call.

Negative comments about the style are welcome, it's simply a matter of constructive critisism. But when you have a generally pesimistic and negative person who can only comment on the negative side of things, you can't expect to be taken in all seriousness.

Alcar...

You're just too nice, Alcar.:D I do hope ya know that I appreciate what you and Abe Babe did for this great online community.

Oh, and Death...I like ya, but what's with all the negativity? It comes off as very annoying if that's all you have to say. Just being a friend, so don't bite my head off! :fuzwink:

-oddguy :fuzcool:

Death is entitled to his opinion I agree we should be grateful and I am, and I like this old style like I said it just reminds me of the old days. and all the new features of VB.3 and the quicker load times.

Although I still do have a lot of respect for Death trying to help us before we decided to change the server, with him trying to ban the ips of some of those people spamming the server.

It may not be a popular view, regardless hes still entitled to it. :fuzsmile:

Yeah, you're right Al.

Hooray for opinions! :fuzgrin:

-oddguy :fuzcool:

[QUOTE=Alcar]But when you have a generally pesimistic and negative person who can only comment on the negative side of things, you can't expect to be taken in all seriousness.
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Yes, a bit like Facsimile in the thread Spinwarp. I find Facs hard to take seriously, and I find hobo hard to take seriously.

I am negative and pesimistic? No, you guys are the negative and pesimistic ones. I try and keep things friendly, but you insist on arguments.

I am the one who is trying to get a bit more control and respect in with negative opinions.

Consider me as being the insentive for not being a negative bastard. If you start being negative I'll come along and beat the crap out of you.

Heh, if this is the Nice Death, I sure don't want to meet the Angry Death...

Me: By the way, I'm a Moose! Moo!

Everyone: "SHUT UP!"

Me: Okay...

*Runs away, moo-ing all the time*

No that was pissed off me. :)

I had a really shit day yesterday. I dunno. Too much coffee or something...

Yeah...Death is a nice guy. I've chatted with him on MSN before and he's cool. I dunno...I think these forums must bring out the worst in him or something.

-oddguy :fuzcool:

I actually completely agree with Oddguy here.

Every single thing about OWF annoys me for some reason. It's a habit I'll do my best to get out of.

Haha. God I sound like I have no control over myself. :D

Alright I'll try and be nicer. :)

I love the new connection speed as it is because I have DSL, and when the server was loading slow, it felt like I was on a 56 K modem.

And death, I know how you feel atleast, we all have our days.

OK yes I appreciate that, but all I am saying is, don't whinge about this sites' theme having to be crap because it needs to load faster. The theme is not to blaim. It's the server.

I wasn't "picking" on anyone. I was having a go at hobo, because I find hobo to be the most irritating ass on earth.

If I insulted anyone, accedentally, or purposefully, then I apologise. My intention wasn't to hurt you, but to get you to shut up and see the issue rather than the argument. Short sightedness ruins this world and pisses me off more than anything, so if you could just give me a chance, I'd like to help.

To just jump in and add my two pennorth, I rather like the forums as they are now. While the Industrial design was nice and I can appreciate how much time was spent on it, it was rather too cluttered for my taste. I mean, this is supposed to be a forum, right? For the purpose of sharing ideas etc? What does it matter how many flashy buttons and blinky smilies and so on there are? The more you put onto a page the more distracting it gets (and that's WITHOUT those bloody huge signatures some people allow on some forums - you know the ones, they're about three screens long, and if a person only posts one line of text like "yea lol!!!11"... *pulls at hair*).

This one might be simple, but hey, you can actually READ the content without having to try to pick it out from the background. I suppose that's the one advantage of ezboard, it didn't matter how much you muck about with the backdrop the actual content boxes stayed pretty much the same, ie clean, clear and obvious.

(On a sidenote, I'm still on the Uni server, and the Industrial theme took an age to load up the first times I'd visit the forums some days - and we're on LAN and broadband, so far as I can tell. If we go back to that I'm dreading how long it'd take to load up if/when I finally get net access of my own, since I wouldn't be able to afford anything but the barest minimum of stuff. But that's by the by.)

So yay, this forum style goood - clean, stylish and neat. Keep it keep it! *does puppy eyes*