Bring back the old site schemes!

[scolaro]

Title
Bring back the old site schemes!

Short, concise description of the idea
Please start supporting XColibur and the other old site schemes again.

Full description of the ideaThe old site schemes are very much liked by a lot of people for various reasons. Even though we can still choose them (if only with a trick) they aren't updated anymore, or

Comments

[andy]

How much money would the company receive if it were to do that? The clientside development department doesn't work for free; and from what I've heard from them, even having four site schemes requires a lot of work to support and maintain.

[fiddlingfrog]

I think this falls under the "Happier users are more likely to become/stay paying users" category of revenue enhancement. Heck, I'd be happy if XColibur and Dystopia were just given an quick update today and forgotten about for another five years.

[scolaro]

Yeah, that would be an alternative I could live with as well.

[nakeisha]

This would be a great compromise. I love XColibur and use it, but it would be nice to have an pdate.

[danceinacircle]

I'd much rather have the developers spend their time developing new things than spend time trying to figure out how to make all the old things work in four completely different site schemes.

I'm in favor of two site schemes, one main version, and one simplified version for mobile and accessibility. I'd much prefer to just allow personalization in the form of skins or coloring options.

[scolaro]

I respect your opinion, of course. However, it seems many people haven't been happy with the new things that were installed on the site lately, so going back to the roots doesn't seem like such a bad idea, IMO.

[xcolibur]

I AGREE

[scolaro]

Hehe, you would, wouldn't you? *hearts xcolibur*

[mlady_rebecca]

Not sure what updating you want. I still use X-Colibur and the only change I would really like to see is the ability to select the older site schemes without knowing the trick to changing the URL manually. (Which I knew at one time, but have since forgotten.)

I'm thrilled that we don't have the revolving headers on the old site schemes. And I like the links to the old search methods. Those are things I specifically want to never be updated.

[scolaro]

Help and FAQ links are missing, which is of course not really a problem for experienced users, but would still be nice to have. And there are probably other links, too, which I don't know about since I don't tend to switch to other schemes.

Anyway, I second the remark about the revolving headers!
Didn't get what people where complaining about before, but now it makes sense. ^^

And I would also really, really like to see XColibur again among the regular site schemes without the need for special URLs to make it appear, etc. (BTW, check out xcolibur for it if you need it at some point.)

[mlady_rebecca]

Thanks for the hint about xcolibur. Just what I needed.

[anotherdream]

Going to have to say no. Officially supporting three more siteschemes means having to spend three times more resources on every single update that affects the interface, three times more bug testing and resolving, three times more user interface design time... that adds up fast, and the main reason can be summed up with "more pretty". I'd rather the devs spend time on other things.

It would be interesting to see actual stats on how many active users actually use the old schemes. I have my suspicions about those numbers.

[scolaro]

I'd like to see those numbers as well...especially since the site schemes were officially abandoned in 2006 already.