Hello PHers and welcome to your new look forums!

[PistonTechs]

Now, we know you love the forums (as do we) but we know they're not perfect. This is why we've decided to streamline the various "skins" (these gave PHers the ability to modify the look of the forums to their taste) that were previously available on PistonHeads, meaning that only the "GTI" one will be offered going forwards.

The reasons for doing this are that by operating with just a single skin, we can develop and deliver improvements much more quickly; this is something that has obviously been lacking in the past. Previously having four skins was kind of like having a very unreliable classic car - extremely high maintenance and it required 4 times the work for even a seemingly simple repair. By having a single skin we also know that all PHers are getting a consistent view of our website, especially with the ever increasing move to users viewing the site on their mobile devices which the "GTI" skin is optimised for.

Those of you who were previously using the GTI skin will obviously be unaffected, but if you're moving from one of our old skins this may all look a bit different. However, all the functionality (and more!) remains, so please do take a few minutes to get used to the new layout.

We do hope you enjoy the new experience but if you really don't like what you're seeing, you can always change back to the skin you were using in your profile settings. However, this will only be temporary as the upcoming move to a secure HTTPS connection across all of PH in April will mean that we permanently remove all skins except GTI as the old ones will no longer be compatible. If there are any changes you'd like to see made to GTI, pop a comment or suggestion into this thread and we'll get it sorted as soon as possible, and now that we only have one skin to consider the work should be completed much faster! Please do keep feedback constructive though!

Best wishes

The PH Team

[Soov330e]

Oh there's going to be trouble.

[superlightr]

wasn't like this in the old days.......

[XM5ER]

"four skins".... snigger

I wasn't even aware this was possible, i knew that when I wasn't logged in the format was horrible, now it seems that horrible is the default skin, shame.

[mac96]

It wuz all fields round yur...

[AndrewEH1]

Are you planning on fixing the UI on the GTI skin? Font sizes, outline, spacing are all weird.



EDIT: OMG, and how quotes look...

EDIT 2: ....and how all the links at the bottom aren't centred.

Edited by AndrewEH1 on Thursday 30th March 14:14

[S10GTA]

XM5ER said:

"four skins".... snigger

I wasn't even aware this was possible, i knew that when I wasn't logged in the format was horrible, now it seems that horrible is the default skin, shame.

Quite. Looks really clunky. Classic was much better.

Poll time?

[AyBee]

There was more than 1 skin?

[funkyrobot]

There's a reason why I never went with the GTI skin.

It's utter st.

Thanks PH.

[XM5ER]

Make Classic Great Again

[JulianHJ]

Ahh! I thought I'd signed out for a minute. GTI looks horrible and amateurish in comparison to PH Classic - please sort this out ASAP. GTI is like stepping back 20 years. Hopefully you can do a much better job than this.

[ambuletz]

Soov330e said:

Oh there's going to be trouble.

indeed. I prefer using 'big blue'. really hate the GTI one because of the font used when writing a reply and the colours used for unread threads in 'my stuff'.

[Soov330e]

This is going to make BREXIT look like a cake party.





Oh what have you done.

[Rawwr]

This is the worse than Brexit.

[Riley Blue]

Back to the 1990's - a bad decision.

[ReaderScars]

This is a nightmare - I use a smartphone in desktop mode connected to a monitor, bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

So does this mean when using the above, I'll only ever see the mobile version of the site and there's no longer a desktop layout of the site available?

[pinchmeimdreamin]

funkyrobot said:

There's a reason why I never went with the GTI skin.

It's utter st.

Thanks PH.

Yes but they don't care.

[Funk]

AndrewEH1 said:

Are you planning on fixing the UI on the GTI skin?

On mobile especially it's still not paginated properly for the shortcut links at the bottom. I gave up asking after a while, I might bump the thread so it can be ignored some more.

Edit: bumped - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Edited by Funk on Thursday 30th March 14:19

[mmm-five]

FFS, April 1st isn't for another couple of days.

Come across a few issues already:

• Everything looks HUGE, as if my short-sighted Dad's been changing my resolution
• Scrolling doesn't work (so can't scroll down to edit/read posts) - scroll bar appears until the page has fully loaded and then disappears; mouse, cursors, space bar do not make page scroll
• Visited links not changing colour
• Forum threads are too close together
• Can't 'mark all read'.

Although saying all the above, changing the skin in preference to Big Blue or PH Classic doesn't fix the scrolling issue.

Edited by mmm-five on Thursday 30th March 14:24

[JiggyJaggy]

If it ain't broke....?