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It's a great website, but why does the design look like it's at least five years old?

Does it matter? It's a very good design, who cares what it looks like as long as the colors are easy on the eyes?

I guess the target audience generally does not care. I personally do. But hey, if no one minds, there is no point in changing it.

It serves, its purpose, and often upgrading the the most recent software can be an headache, even the slightest change to the forum, could upset the members, I should know

Yes it certainly serves its purpose, I did not mean it as an attack. And yes, I guess changes wouldn't bode too well with many people on here.

But I wasn't just talking about changing the colours. I just think it looks a bit unorganised. Unbalanced, or something. There is lots of text on nearly every page (not just the forum topic pages...). It looks a bit messy, and sometimes it annoys me, as I'm very organised and like a clean, fresh look. Changing the layout, not the actual site content, would in my opinion really improve this website.

I know that kind of stuff is hard to change, though. Especially if you have to work with other people's code, and of course you do, unless the Wrongplanet.net folk have built these forums from scratch, which I cannot imagine, hehe.

The forum software is phpBB, Alex could upgrade it to the latest version, But its just way to much fuss it would mean changing alot of code to get the site look how it does now, obviously running a cleaner and updated version of forum software, I changed the theme on my forum and the members didn't like it due to the change so its changed back now, I do agree with you it could do with being updated, but it would be to much coding/work.

I understand you didn't mean it as an attack

Probably because it is?

I'm a webdesigner myself. I've seem a LOT worse than this for large interactive websites, and this works imo. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Hehe, I was waiting for someone to say that.



Yes, there's certainly a lot worse websites out there. This website isn't bad, it's fine, but in my opinion, could be even better. I don't agree with the "If it ain't broke don't fix it" saying thing. There's always room for improvement.

But seeing as I'm the only one interested in such a website change I'll just drop my case

well the statement really applies to why change something most are happy with and works well to something everyone hates for the sake of said improvement?

That's what I said. I said that if I'm the only one interested, there is no point in changing it.
I thought I'd bring it up to see if others were thinking the same.
If so, the change would be an improvement.
If not, which is the case, the change would not be an improvement and shouldn't be made.

Topic can be closed, I think?