Why would you voluntarily make a forum ugly?

[Throckmorton]

http://naxja.org/forum/index.php

I've been a member there for a couple of months, but the appearance is driving me insane. I posted on the support board asking for more schemes, but they said that it's basically impossible without a lot of time and effort, and that I should pay for membership before I can complain. OK, my post was rude, but that is seriously one of the ugliest sites on the interwebs. I thought we all understood by now how important usability is, and that appearance affects the user experience. The nasty primer grey and pink-grey fade is exactly what makes me not want to give them $35/year.
I thought we lived in an age of CSS etc, where changing color schemes is as easy as opening up a WYSIWG editor and altering some # color codes... Or leaving the colors in the vBulletin system alone.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Who the fuck would pay to use an internet forum? And yes, it's ugly.

 

[ObiDon]

it's not that bad. i thought it was going to be a black or grey background with yellow or light blue text.

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Who the fuck would pay to use an internet forum? And yes, it's ugly.

I paid for membership at Jeepforum, which btw is very well designed.
http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/index.php

 

[mrSHEiK124]

That's really not that bad...

 

[Born2bwire]

It looks absolutely horrid to me. I wouldn't want to frequent it.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I've seen 1000s worse than that.

 

[MartyMcFly3]

I've seen worse.

 

[Q]

Originally posted by: ObiDon
it's not that bad. i thought it was going to be a black or grey background with yellow or light blue text.

 

[imported_Imp]

It don't look like ass... It don't look like pudding either.



Edit: Reinserted "g" into puddin' to avoid confusion.

 

[MartyMcFly3]

Originally posted by: Imp
It don't look like ass... It don't look like puddin' either.

Does it look like ass puddin' then? :Q

 

[0roo0roo]

readability = #1
so its ugly

 

[Scarpozzi]

If you care enough, you can always run an internal proxy server somewhere and place rewrite rules to fix the colors however you want them...it's just a crappy way to side step the ugly.

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: MartyMcFly3

Originally posted by: Imp
It don't look like ass... It don't look like puddin' either.

Does it look like ass puddin' then? :Q

Well, last time I go gangsta. Knew something would go wrong when I started cutting letters off.

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
If you care enough, you can always run an internal proxy server somewhere and place rewrite rules to fix the colors however you want them...it's just a crappy way to side step the ugly.

Opera lets you strip out any site's CSS and substitute your own. Copy whatever they currently have, save to a file on your hard drive, tweak as desired.

Firefox can presumably do something similar if you install enough third-party extensions.

Internet Explorer... um, has tabs now.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: Aluvus

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
If you care enough, you can always run an internal proxy server somewhere and place rewrite rules to fix the colors however you want them...it's just a crappy way to side step the ugly.

Opera lets you strip out any site's CSS and substitute your own. Copy whatever they currently have, save to a file on your hard drive, tweak as desired.

Firefox can presumably do something similar if you install enough third-party extensions.

Internet Explorer... um, has tabs now.

Greasemonkey > *

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: Aluvus

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
If you care enough, you can always run an internal proxy server somewhere and place rewrite rules to fix the colors however you want them...it's just a crappy way to side step the ugly.

Opera lets you strip out any site's CSS and substitute your own. Copy whatever they currently have, save to a file on your hard drive, tweak as desired.

Firefox can presumably do something similar if you install enough third-party extensions.

Internet Explorer... um, has tabs now.

Seriously? Sweet!

I used to use Opera, way way back before Firefox took off.

 

[IronWing]

Behold!

 

[Auric]

It's not as bad as avsforum was until recently.

 

[newnameman]

Originally posted by: Auric
It's not as bad as avsforum was until recently.

The new AVSForum colors suck, I switched back to the classic.

 

[coldmeat]

The forum in the OP is neither ugly or pretty. Terrible poll IMO.

 

[dartworth]

I really don't care...it's all about the content and NAXJA is :thumbsup:

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: newnameman

Originally posted by: Auric
It's not as bad as avsforum was until recently.

The new AVSForum colors suck, I switched back to the classic.

Seriousry? It's relatively neutral like AT. Before it was black and pink.

 

[Snapster]

Ugly, but there is far worse that could be done.

 

[LtPage1]

One day I'll subscribe to FerrariChat.