Fine, but give me back the good skin. We went through this with Ed’s crappy “mobile” skin. It costs literally nothing to create a new skin with the dumbass SEO stuff, and those who like it have it as the default, as do new users. But those of us who liked the good skin can still have it. Nobody loses anything except a tiny amount of HDD space on the server.
Why don’t the people at the Admin side get that More Choices for User Reading Comfort=ALWAYS better*?
*Don’t nitpick, yes, 50,000,000,000 options is too many. You knew what I meant.
Do they still do the pop-unders / page hijacks to some BS ad like they used to? Any site that does that to me gets closed & never to be returned to.
I’m not sure how much revenue is made from those but think about how much revenue is lost when noobs run, fleeing from the Dope, never to buy a membership or see another ad, or contribute & make this a better place. They’re about 160 of the death by 1000 cuts.
The SDMB has such a small userbase (compared to what it was) that it’s not worth risking a regular poster over such a stupid, unnecessary cosmetic change.
Just clone the old, pre-broken skin and let us use it.
They put things back to looking how they did before, at least. If it was using <b> or something before, instead of <h2>, then this change should still have the SEO effects they were hoping for. Which is a good thing.