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4smiffy
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I can't even remember what it looked like. I do remember though the bleating that went on. Anyway, have you all got used to the new format now?
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4smiffy
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https://web.archive.org/web/20091229235443/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums
though i dare not even bother trying to view it on my phone anymore, mainly for fear of huge adverts blocking the screen which appear to be impossible to get rid of
http://xkcdsw.com/dump/20110706-ds-sshot.png
How do you cope with reading a newspaper, magazine, or book?
Is that what it looks like on a wide monitor?
Also found the new look hard on the eyes, so downloaded Stylish and used the 'Digital Spy Forums - Retro' style.
Yeah, currently running at 3840x2160 and the borders take up more of the screen than the actual forum does.
I remember it. I think the reason why there was complaints about this one in posts was because people might have had their monitor brightness turned up too high (in my opinion). It looks fine to me as far as brightness goes. As it starts getting more and more darker outside, I just knock the brightness further and further down on the monitor. I do have to turn the lamp on eventually though.
But they did listen to some of the complaints, the white borders were replaced with grey, the text went back to black and the forum posts also have a slightly off white background. Much easier on the eyes.
Still a lot of wasted space either side of the forum itself on a widescreen monitor though, but that is undoubtedly for advertising in the future.
And the forum is still completely unusable on most mobile devices due to the huge amount of intrusive advertising that can sometimes be difficult to close.
I'm at 1920 x 1080 and it's the same for me. Less than half the screen is the actual forum.
Much preferred the old colours.