# Wow **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 12, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188 "2004-01-12T22:03:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/21 "2004-01-12T22:36:31Z")
It’s new, it’s blue, woo-hoo ! ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/22 "2004-01-12T22:38:49Z")
What on earth is going on? Is this a permanent change? ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/23 "2004-01-12T22:39:14Z")
The rolly-eyed smilie looks a little more benign – almost bemused instead of sarcastic. But hey, if the thing runs faster, I can live with it. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/24 "2004-01-12T22:41:00Z")
Yeesh. Depressing colors. Geno smilies. ☹🙂 :mad: and why does the embarassed smilie look like he was eating orange sherbert? :o And the layout makes my fragile little mind weep. ---
**Author:** ![SylverOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SylverOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SylverOne)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/25 "2004-01-12T22:41:18Z")
Ditto on the not thrilled… Guess I’ll learn to deal with it though. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/26 "2004-01-12T22:41:45Z")
Like me! I want the smilies to have their color back! > [@](#): > > _Although some of the stuff we can do now is kinda fun._ There’s also a button for Insert Image. I wonder… Ah. On preview I see it just puts the link in. Makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/27 "2004-01-12T22:46:27Z")
They’ve upgraded to the new version series 3.0 which I think is permanent. Hopefully, the layout isn’t. Check out [http://www.christianforums.org](http://www.christianforums.org) for a better layout. I’m sure we’ll eventually end up with a nice one. I wonder if there could be a friendly layout competiton. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/28 "2004-01-12T22:47:57Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Like me! I want the smilies to have their color back! > > There’s also a button for Insert Image. I wonder… > > Ah. On preview I see it just puts the link in. Makes sense. Hey, I hit “Reply” in the box holding my post, and I got a box to write in with my previous post’s text. Wonder if the previous post will be in quote setup when this posts? Also it’s odd that the http link I put in the previous post to test the Image function showed up on preview but not in the posted message. Hmmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/29 "2004-01-12T22:50:11Z")
Likely there are “templates” that are applied, and they have to adjust/tweak the SDMB template to play nice with 3.0. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/30 "2004-01-12T22:53:19Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Hey, I hit “Reply” in the box holding my post, and I got a box to write in with my previous post’s text. Wonder if the previous post will be in quote setup when this posts? Also it’s odd that the http link I put in the previous post to test the Image function showed up on preview but not in the posted message. Hmmmmm… Ah, and I see that if you hit “Reply” inside the post you get quoted only the text that was written in that post. If you quoted something else it is deleted. Gotta remember that! :smack: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/31 "2004-01-12T23:04:38Z")
The boards don’t seem any faster, for all these changes. And the flow of conversation is really harder to follow with all the huge posternames in between. I hope this isn’t permanent. I get enough “change for change’s sake” at my workplace. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/32 "2004-01-12T23:04:43Z")
Weird. It has a cartoon-ish look to it. I wish the column was wider, I also have lots of wasted space. BOO-YA Eh. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/33 "2004-01-12T23:10:07Z")
Uck. Awful. Bloody awful. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/34 "2004-01-12T23:14:16Z")
I imagine the board is slow because everyone is trying to get back in, play with the control panel, etc. I expect that soon we’ll be hearing from the admins about the change, reasons, improvements, etc. I’m going to withhold judgment until then. I also have wasted space on my 21" monitor, but there must be some way to adjust it that I haven’t found yet. I agree that the smilies are rather blah. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/35 "2004-01-12T23:16:58Z")
People people! The boards have been upgraded. When that happens, all the old customised styles are written over. It takes time, sometimes many hours, to repair such things and get them back to the way they were. Rest assured they will get things looking back the way they were soon enough. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/36 "2004-01-12T23:18:29Z")
well i’m never turning “threaded” on again! That was horrible! Too bad there isn’t too many other new things to fiddle around with. ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/37 "2004-01-12T23:22:13Z")
Ok, I like the changes - a couple of them, in particular, like: Being able to log in at the top of a thread, instead of having to go back to the main menu The “guided mode” for posting a reply And has ANYONE noticed yet, that if you are registered with Yahoo IM, AOL IM, or ICQ, that your messenger logo shows up as part of your user data in your post? That’s NIFTY ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/38 "2004-01-13T01:36:08Z")
Mostly testing, but I’m not sure I like this. Hopefully it’ll be looking more like it used to soon, but in the mean time the anemic smilies are freaking me out. :eek: in particular is just wrong - it looks like a ghost that saw another ghost. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/39 "2004-01-13T01:37:47Z")
Huh. And I’d forgotten I had a sig. Time to go play around in my user CP I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188/40 "2004-01-13T01:40:10Z")
hey, if i hold the mouse over the post link, it gives the first few lines of the post! neat! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow/224188.md?page=3)