Article: Welcome To FlightSim.Com 2012

[rockinrobin]

Tried out the Beta versions a bit a few days ago, but made no immediate decisions. Today, I spent a couple hours on the site and now have these impressions:
1. Very slow page loading, as others have noted. Accept your explanation that this is temporary while tuning is in progress (hope it improves sooner rather than later!)
2. Also agree with another poster that the "Recent Forum Activity" panel is not useful to me when I am reviewing anything but the Forums section of the site. When I am reviewing the File Library, I could care less about Forum Activity and would rather use that space for a wider File Library text area. @JSkorna, I am also unable to locate the "arrow" which will remove that panel with "one click"...more details, please?
3. Forum thread icon colors are too similar for these old eyes to differentiate easily. The "read" vs "unread" colors should be more distinct. Also, I am unable to discern any difference between the icons for "Hot with unread threads" and "Hot with no unread threads". They appear to be identical to me, even in the legend at the bottom of the page. Shouldn't the "no unread threads" icon be much dimmer?
4. I prefer the "white" version... the "blue" version makes the text more difficult to read (lower contrast) and the "photo" version is too busy (distracting to the eye), in my opinion.
Otherwise, I see no difference in navigation or operation of the site, from the user perspective. Thanks for your continued support of our "hobby" (addiction).

[Ragtopjohnny]

Very nice work guys. Excellent job on the new site.

John Thuot II

[adamb]

I prefer the old one better, seems like a lot of wasted space to me, and as for the screenshot forum, lets just say it ain't what it used to be.

Adam

[Bennzo]

Nice work folks! The site looks great!

Keep up the good work!!

[cujo29]

Love it.

[vegasjon]

Love the update! nice and clean! I especially like the right side column showing the forum activity! Great job!

[obywan]

Good job! The upgrade is appreciated. Thanks.

[SunnySaratoga]

I don't like it (conditionally) ......when I am on the road and just want to browse the what's new section it is slower than the less graphically intense old version.
I do like it when I have a good/free high speed connection the new look is ... just right. Flightsim.com has been my FS home since the very start. Thank you Nels for everything you have done for the whole community...it would have never been the same without you.

Cheers
Stefan

[nicky9499]

Peep up the good work Nels, the site looks good with this fresh look and no problems here so far. It would be nice to make the overall site width a bit wider, perhaps 1280px, since most peeps have widescreen displays nowadays.

[scottmiller]

I"m a firm believer in the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy. In my opinion there was very little, if anything, that needed fixing. Is there a way for those who prefer the old layout to switch back to it? One thing in particular I wish had been retained in the file library is the fact that as you moved backward from the newest to the oldest in the new files search, the previous page numbers (i.e., 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, etc.) as well as the "download" and "view" headings for each file would turn black allowing one to keep track of those pages and files one had previously seen already. The new layout doesn't do that....