# Wow, I hate this new format **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 6, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610 "2017-09-06T05:21:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/1 "2017-09-06T05:21:23Z")
It’ll take a while to get used to it. What was wrong with thw ay it was? ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/2 "2017-09-06T05:24:51Z")
Yeah, hate is pretty much my first reaction. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/3 "2017-09-06T05:27:38Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > It’ll take a while to get used to it. What was wrong with thw ay it was? The old format caused spelling errors that made some posters sound like old Warner Brothers cartoon characters. The new one is supposed to address that but I am not sure it is working so far. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/4 "2017-09-06T06:07:04Z")
It’s fairly bad. The text needs to be shrunk with NoSquint or something to make it legible. The new Reply buttons are bellowing and the bars are harsh. The post buttons for replys are unfinished. It seems to have been purposed to force an old Leaderboard advert on people with adblocking ( uBlock Origin needed resetting in any event ). Unfortunately the leaderboard is repeated exactly after every 5 posts. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/5 "2017-09-06T06:38:36Z")
Now I see new embedded ads every fifth post or so. I have this odd craving for a white whale, but I don’t know why. Let’s see - worse look, more ads. Sounds like a typical SD “upgrade”. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/6 "2017-09-06T07:02:29Z")
I get it that they need to upgrade the format for people using tablets and smart phones, but the format now has some serious issues for users with a large monitor. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/7 "2017-09-06T07:15:42Z")
What the ever loving fuck happened? I thought I had had a stoke! Cancel.:mad: ---
**Author:** ![SOJA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@SOJA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SOJA)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/8 "2017-09-06T07:23:23Z")
New format? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/9 "2017-09-06T07:32:28Z")
It needs some tiny aesthetic tweaking, like some whitespace added in some places, and removed from other places, and unfortunately none of my Greasemonkey scripts work anymore. But I do not condemn it yet. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/10 "2017-09-06T07:36:07Z")
Wow!!! Bad board. Bad, bad board. Go sit on the naughty step. And don’t come back till you learn to behave normally, like you used to. My screen looks like the worst aspects of Windows 8. (i.e it looks like a Fisher-Price toy for toddlers). The reply box is HUGE and it so BRIGHT if hurts my eyes. (but I suppose it’s easier for some obese person with fat fingers to press on his mobile). The BIG BLUE BAR between each post is obnoxious, and totally unnecessary. (no matter how fat your fingers are, you don’t need such a thick line between posts) The “Reply with quote” is too faded and harder to see… The login box is invisible. The password box is visible, but I had to guess where to type my user name Please remind the Powers That Be that the average age of posters on this board is best described as “old farts”. We don’t need all this new-fangled stuff. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/11 "2017-09-06T07:39:06Z")
It looks like crap and now I see ad’s. Not a good combination when I was drifting away from the place anyway. I mean, you are forcing ads on me? That only ends one way. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/12 "2017-09-06T07:39:42Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > The old format caused spelling errors . huh? Spelling errors are caused by, well,…people who don’t know how to spell. _typing_ errors, on the other hand, are often caused by autocorrect And none of the changes I see here will improve any of those errors. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/13 "2017-09-06T07:42:20Z")
so everybody complains because SDMB never updates their old version of vBulletin, and now that they’ve updated it everyone complains. sorry they moved your cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/14 "2017-09-06T07:46:43Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > so everybody complains because SDMB never updates their old version of vBulletin, and now that they’ve updated it everyone complains. > > sorry they moved your cheese. One hopes that updates would be an improvement. This isn’t that. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/15 "2017-09-06T08:10:39Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > so everybody complains because SDMB never updates their old version of vBulletin, and now that they’ve updated it everyone complains. > > sorry they moved your cheese. Yeah, thats going to be the stock response from a lot of people. “You just don’t like change”. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/16 "2017-09-06T08:20:48Z")
Some aspects definitely suck, but the fact that there are hard-coded “ads” for a tablet that’s no longer being produced makes me think they’re not done fiddling with stuff yet. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/17 "2017-09-06T08:24:32Z")
It’s really not that different. everything is pretty much in the same place it was before. I’ve been around sites like Ars Technica for a long damn time (18 years in the case of that one.) Every time they change the site design, people scream about how horrible it is and how much better the previous one was. _And it’s always the same people._ ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/18 "2017-09-06T09:38:18Z")
And there I was thinking it was just me and some sort of Windows glitch. Thanks for the heads-up Mods…a warning might have been nice. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/19 "2017-09-06T10:11:05Z")
Moving this to ATMB since it’s about this message board. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610/20 "2017-09-06T10:29:52Z")
Anyone hand with writing [Stylish](https://userstyles.org/) scripts? Maybe they can write something to get rid of the incredibly excessive amount of blank space? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-hate-this-new-format/795610.md?page=2)