When was site's new design implemented?
 

I stopped visiting www.abandonia.com for a few months and when I came back the design was totally different! I really liked the old one. What happened? Why did it change?
I apologize in advance if my question was already answered in another thread. Thanks :laugh:!

it was a bit more that a few months.

Yes, yes... It was a mistake. I don't know why admins decided that design must be changed.

It changed in December, about half a year now...

There are some obvious benefits for the admins and mods. One thing is we haven't had any bots since we changed. That's always a good thing. The guys at Reloaded have the old design and they are constantly fighting them bots.

Other than that, the new design has a few features not available with the old design. Ask someone who knows what he's talking about for details there.

it's not with the design, it's with the engine :p

the site design could be totally different, even almost the same as the site before. it's just a graphical layout, what can be so unprogrammable in here?

Fact is, whoever is pulling the strings behind Abandonia now, they don't seem to be giving a **** about making it a better place for everyone to visit.
The work is done here as far as I can tell mostly only by Fifth Horseman and some of the moderators who are still visiting here, and the updaters, but there has been only little improvement in the current layout of the site which would probably require someone with more direct access to the site.

actually, it was mid-November from what I recall :P

You're right about that part, Scatty.
Unfortunately, Kosta is pretty much our only real contact with Studentis, and he's been away for some time.

I have to honestly say that I left because the forum became so overwhelmingly unpleasant to use.

I don't mind how Abandonia changes as long as it dosen't become one of those places where you need an account to download games. There are too many websites like this, and guests come to get games, not spend the next fifteen minutes making an account just so they can download Wasteland, or something.

But I can't say I like the new layout, but switching to vBulletin was a good idea, its very good forum software. Maybe if we give the new design a chance, things will get better.