I think what's putting me off is the huge influx of newbies, most of whom can't spell and/or type in irritatng txt msg lingo. Also, the average age of the forum members seems to have dropped. I like conversing with people with intelligence at least equal to mine.
I keep thinking to myself whether or not it'd be a good idea to just stop any new-members from registering, but that's obviusly not a good idea, because we do get the occasional intelligent newbie (Pinkgoth2, for example; I like her) and some of our existing members are eedjits (not naming names).
Added to the huge waves of new people, I think another thing that's making me feel alienated is that lots of the old members have gone. Pacen and Oddbodd have both said they've left for good, Daniel Brown seems to have naffed off, and Anime_2day and mpwenda came back but left after a very brief stay. If you're out there, guys, do come back!
So there's pretty much not a lot anyone can do about it. Shame I couldn't provide a more helpful answer, but there you go.
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Originally posted by Abe Babe
I've been thinking of this feature for a while now. vBulletin has this capability, thus why I thought it might be able to be utilized in some way. One idea could be to have a main (default) layout (i.e. this one)... and we could have alternate layouts which users can suggest. Possible ideas could be to have different themes (i.e. wildlife, industrial). or layouts which reflect Oddworld-Web and Oddworldian.
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I do like this idea, though. To avoid the colour-clash prob that Pinkgoth2 mentioned, maybe Kris or Syd could make a colour-clash-test page, consisting of a table, with each cell having a different background colour (one for each colour scheme) and containing a sample piece of text written repeatedly in different font colours, so people can choose one compatible with all the schemes.