Some people will love the new theme, some people will hate it. That's the way it is with everything.

But that's beside the point. The point is, is that there needs to be options so people can use what they like.

It seems to load faster and appears to remove any need for horizontal scrolling while reading posts within threads.

Hey, I was proud of that theme! I do believe that if you are new to the forums, you would appreciate a simpler layout. Once you get used to the overall way the forum system works, you want the more complicated, cluttered, busy-looking, less user-friendly interface.

The theme appears to be fine, but I do not like the layout at all. It does not solve the problem of showing as many active threads as possible. When viewed on a standard 1280x800 display, at most 4 threads are visible. A lot of space at the top is taken by eyecandy-heavy maemo.org header. I think the design should address users' needs first and only then try being pretty.

sorry lol
its just too bright, i need sunglasses

Using minimalistic theme, there are no options visible to vote on.

i agree with fms, everything is horribly large - presumably for readability on mobile devices, but i'd say most people do most of their forum posting etc on a computer..... and do we really need the topic before each post? seems like a massive waste of space to me

I'm just happy you kept my minimalist theme

I have to agree with the previous comments that the layout doesn't make optimal use of the screen space.
Minimalistic theme is nice though.

most of the time i read and post wiith mine tablet but the colors are hurting my eyes and the minimaliste theme don''t have some options, we are going to be used to in a couple of weeks but the colors need to be darker to make it readable on the device as well as the pc that will help a lot, apart from that i like the overall changes.