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Pyxis

That's interesting about it being Mobile friendly.

If mobile includes iPads, the blue version very often cuts off the right-hand side of people's posts.

consumers_revenge

1 more for green


Loathe the blue version

SuperMoose

Green here too Blue gives me a headache.

LittleMax

I am also using green version and prefer it.

catkins

Green for me too. Tried the blue but it gave me a migraine

cabdy

Much easier to use on ipad

codger

Delighted to see MSE no longer wishes to associate itself with Facebook for log-in purposes. Re the extended character problems of late as well as the seeming dictum about who-shall-have-green, and who-must-have-blue:

What's happening here is reminiscent of the way Microsoft came to believe itself an infallible arbiter of taste and choice, as if it was a motor manufacturer which with each new model range shifted everything around inside the vehicle up to and including positioning the steering wheel on the back seat. Just because it felt like it.

Many a justification was given for this -- hackneyed, specious, and even downright mendacious -- but the underlying motivation was always clear: you, you're only a customer. We. Know. Better.

Microsoft's management is, of course, now so completely deranged that it brands much of its work as being by / from The Creator. Hopefully, MSE's own management will not display similar aspirations to God-like omnipotence. The message to MSE is: keep it simple; keep it usable . . . and keep it GREEN.

ThePants999

codger wrote: »

Delighted to see MSE no longer wishes to associate itself with Facebook for log-in purposes.

I've seen a few people thinking this is some kind of political statement from MSE. Reality check: Facebook are making a change that would mean MSE would need to do some work to keep Facebook login working, and they don't have time to do the work, so they're just going to switch it off instead.

VoucherMan

Have all these people commenting/complaining about the demise of the green screens considered that it's probably more about the money? Maybe the Supermarket owners are trying to remodel themselves after Aldi/Lidl, rather than the old big 4, and that includes limiting the varieties available.
Back in the days when Martin was in charge didn't he sometimes remind us that the forum was secondary to the main site? We're the ones costing money for the site, not making it, so there's no incentive to keep us happy.


3 days in but no examples to show.:undecided

Maybe some screenshots (from a 16:9 monitor) would help some of those who are confused or uncertain.

I'm not sure which is the most recent green option, but I guess it must be the recommended one.



compared to the forum default.





Just for comparison, the other versions being lost, including the 'easier on the eye' 'Less bright' versions

Old look, new masthead

Stretchy, less bright

Stretchy

fixed width, more space



fixed width, less bright




So those (1000) of us wanting to stay green will have to move from



to



until there's another upgrade/cost cutting exercise, when we'll probably lose that too

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

the last version of the green (which we're no longer developing)

James_N

It works. Don't change it.