Did facebook buy bigsoccer?

And this was the solution?

I thank you for coming here and shedding light and providing a little inside info, but was there really no way to "fix" those issues without making such a huge change in layout and functionality? It was simple to use. Now it is not...and the fact that people may get used to it won't change the fact that before, it was simpler because we were already used to it.

I don't like having to "get used" to things in my leaisure time. I'm already still trying to get used to my new "airline of choice" after their merge a year ago. I'm already having to get used the new website from the very company I work for. I'm already having to get used to my "new" diet becuase I turned 40. I now have to get used to the new facebook timeline because it is being forced on me and yes, I do use facebook.

I don't want to have to do that here too. And I think most people that have been here loyaly for so long, may think the same.

I'll throw my hat in on the slow problems, a lot of times I was getting a bunch of No Data Received pages and BigSoccer was a huge contributor to those, with Wikipedia being 2nd.

What I just hate is drastic change to the nth degree.

When is Farmville going to be available?

Its not just change-- the cosmetics really are kind of annoying. Its the lack of definintion between things-- just a bold line between posts would be a huge improvement. Or perhaps all the greyed out stuff will be bold when alls done?

(I also hope that I wont have to scroll through ten pages of posts I've already read to get it to recognise my real "first unread." At the moment it's got me in late February or early March...)

Check the Sporting Kansas City thead.

BTW, its much faster and more reliable here-- I was having page changes hang fire for 30 sec to a minute constantly...

Never had that issue.

xforo is awesome... i hope for a new skin, because this one sucks!

Not too elegant, but mark all forums read and then as new posts come in you can jump right to "first unread".

OK, your sig line is the worst. This is exactly the kind of cluttering up that I was afraid would happen with a new software.

Hipster.

Everything is clean and simple and in need of a little polish, so my new BSG Robotron "Ernst Thälmann" Sömmerda avatar fits in pretty well.

Yes, there are some things that we will all need to get used to. The font is different, und ein bisschen kleiner. Friends are now called followers. You just rep without a comment. I am sure some of these things can be tweaked a little. One thing I do like is that you can now copy and paste text into the input box without it taking strange characteristics and sizes - I really did hate that.

I did like the old school look of the previous incarnation, but if the admins said the place was a-creakin', it is their responsibility to make sure that they grease the axles a little. It's a whole lot better that arriving here only to see that the whole thing has done a Hansa Rostock.

My reaction:

This ^^^

Yeah. I'd like to negrep that, just on the basis of the signature alone. But apparently negrep is gone. It's all sunshine and moonbeams here now.

Yep, I've seen these kind of sigs on other boards and they always get way out of hand. Kill this now before that happens.

Do we have the function here that you can click a button and get the list of the most recently replied to threads like we've had in the past?

fart in a crowded elevator

Dude, can you please get rid of that garish, awful sig? Imagine if everybody had one of those.

The new rep system is atrocious. I "liked" that only the recipient was able to see who repped what message.

You guys do know you can choose not to view any sigs, right?

Yeah, but I like to read sigs. Some are actually funny.

I quite like it.

Good for you

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