Orange and White Clickys

The links on this forum are driving me nuts. Recently until today we appeared to have two kinds of links in the forum lists, white and gray. There was a difference but I'm not sure what it was. Maybe one was "you have looked at this thread before" and one was "you have not looked at this thread before". Whatever, I don't really care because all I want to see is threads that have been updated. They used to be in white bold at the top of each list. Simple. Now we have orange and gray. What does that mean?

In a post, we used to have underlined links with no change in font size on mouse rollover. Maybe the color changed to green on rollover. Simple. Now we have underlined gray links with a change in font size on mouse rollover that makes the rest of the text in the post jump around all over the place. I have an epileptic fit every time I do a mouse rollover in a post these days.

One of the very best books on user interface design is by a bloke called Steve Krug and it's called Don't make me think. Jorge, can we have a return to simplicity please?

Links in forum lists: Just bold white if the thread is updated. No other text decoration.

Links in posts: Make the linked text the same color as the text surrounding it (i.e. white) and underline it. On rollover remove the smaller size attribute please. If you want a rollover color change it to the green you used before the server change; it was good in terms of legibility.

Thanks!
 
When my daughter visited us upstate the week before last we hit the malls to do some fashion shopping. It seems that this year's fashion color is orange. Jorge is just keeping up with the times.
Kurt M.
 
Jorge does like to fiddle about, colors are often weird, and interface design odd: just look under 'Main Menu' towards the top left and see two links to 'Forums'.

'The Art and Science of Web Design' by Jeffrey Veen is well-worth reading even for somebody just running an out of the box system such as RFF.

What we really could do with, if vBulletin allows for it, is a button on each post 'Alert a Moderator'.

The content here is mostly good and that makes up for the lime green one month and orange the next month.
 
I see enough orange here every April 30th to last me a lifetime, so, alas, I'm not impressed. At all.
 
Orange links? That's it.
All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'm as mad as hell,

...and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"
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And then we'll see what's what.
 
Jorge, please go back to grey/white. You've changed the "flavour" of RFF from classy to garish.
 
FrankS said:
You've changed the "flavour" of RFF from classy to garish.
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It's not garish at all on my Mac ... and much easier to read than the old colour scheme. However, the old one looked a lot different on Windows than it did on the Mac.

Peter
 
Looks like I'll be buying a Mac then, Peter! :)

Jorge if you want to add colour, try the green palette. It'll look better with the grey background.
 
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