The new buttons don’t match the dark blue bars. It looks worst for the buttons that are actually on the bar.
The “Reply” button on each post is being resized too small. The p and also the e are goofed up.
The square reply icon is just dumb looking too. The ed of the paper looks uneven. It also obviously wasn’t designed to be used against against a dark background, so it looks bad against the blue bar at the bottom.
I shouldn’t have cleared my cache. sigh
I shed no tears for rolleyes. I hate that thing. It’s just meanspirited and nasty. Now that it’s been rendered impotent by that stupid little apologetic smile, maybe it’ll fall out of use.
It reminds me of AOL with its look and feel. This is a Bad Thing. The smileys now look like total ass and I’d be embarassed to use them in a post. Too cheesy.
Another vote for the original SDMB. This is like the message board version of New Coke.
The whole point of that emoticon was that it was mean-spirited. Sure, it got on my nerves from time to time but there are some cases where the old nasty rolleyes, standing alone and defiant under a quoted post was the perfect response. I, for one, will miss him. Personally, I blame Windows XP for all of this pastel, shiny and bulbous crap.
I use Internet Explorer on Windows XP. I hit Control+F5 and rebooted. All I see that looks new is the checkmark next to the username. The smilies all look just the same as before. I looked all over for a choice-of-skin menu and can’t see one.
When I was a boy, we didn’t have these fancy colored smiley faces. We only had one color of icon back then, black, and we had to make them ourselves out of punctuation marks. And we were grateful!