Please, everybody who is complaining about the new look: The forum has suffered an equivalent of a major system seizure.
The ambulance arrived in time and the patient was delivered to the ICU. A few days were spent fighting for the patient's life.
Now the patient is stable and in recovery, but not quite back in shape to don the chequered golf clothes and strut their stuff on the Green.
Have some patience, will you? If you've ever tried to put together cross-browser compatible CSS for a content management system like this forum, then you can complain. If you haven't, then just plain wait. They're working on it. Yes, I'm sure that even Mr Excel himself will want a unique MrExcel look and feel.
If this had been a planned upgrade, I'm sure the look and feel would not have been impacted much. But it was NOT a planned upgrade. It was an emergency measure taken to avert further virus attacks. Since the upgrade to the new forum software version was basically forced on the team that runs the site, they didn't stand a chance to prepare the background stuff that makes things orange or blue or centered or pop up.
So just bear with them, will you?
This is not about your convenience or whether you prefer umber over purple. Skinning a vBulletin forum is not a mean feat. If you have something to contribute, I'm sure the powers that be will be listening.
But please stop whining about the new look. It's the out of the box default. Applying branding takes time. So bear it and wait.
In the mean time, go and answer questions. Because, despite the skin, despite blue or orange, this fantastic forum still has a strong heartbeat and a lot of askers in need of your valuable suggestions.
So, for the time being, try to ignore the vBulletin default look and just focus on the forum's purpose: Excel.
