I only used the green styles, so I can't say if smooth blue had that option.

Importantly from my pov, the new style only takes about 1/4 the time to load a page.
This is a huge difference for may and makes the site much more useable.

I think from a functionality and content perspective, you folks have done a bang up job and I appreciate the hard work you've done for free on the community's behalf :)

People will always complain about changes but then we get used to the new way of doing things and move on with our lives. There are going to be kinks in the new layout, that's just how things go when you deploy so many changes on such a large user base.

You guys have been asking for change for years now and you're finally getting it :). I'm sure they're working on bigger and better things for us all in private so lets cut 'em some slack and deal with the quirks until they get fixed.

You and me both. Things are so much better on this side of the modem on the new style ;).

I think they're reluctant to bring back the old styles because it's harder for them to maintain 2 skins.

Alot of people here are forum administrators themselves, which shocks me to hear any complaints about change. As an admin you should know that changes have to be made, especially if you want your site to be cutting edge.

Take some time, learn the new format, there are alot of good features with this new skin.

I find it hard to browse the navbar, it is supposed to be the first/second board where Jelsoft's Customers go and grab downloads/mods. How are they supposed to learn and get used to the navbar and so many other things that are unique (and hard to find) here at vb.org?

Im my opinion, this should have the default navbar links, header and extra options like now, the tabs and seach box where you can define what do you want to search.

Keep it simple, not every user on this board has been using vbulletin for 8 years (??)

Conservatism is never a good thing. Sure, the old design was nice, but times change, and so should design.

Is there a way to get this CSS based Blue Lagon design ? I Liked IT !

When you introduce something new, there's always ppl who like it, and not like it. I would say the ratio is usually about 5-5 or 4-6 one way or the other, unless you make something super good or super bad compare to the old one (which rarely happen)

So, says IF you switch back to the old one, there will also be alot or "other half" will raise their voice and say they don't like it, asking to use the "new" one, what would you do?

The admin, or whoever in charge have to decide, and the admins here did make the decision to make the changes THIS YEAR, so why don't ppl live with it, and make it/suggest it the way you like.

For example, someone don't like the nav bar, make contributive suggestion on how the nav bar can be improved. it's be more effective than yelling all day long :)

I personally like the new style, except that I miss some of the quick links for All my installed hacks, new hacks ...