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I don’t like it. The old design was so simple and nice, this is a complicated and shiny mess.

Hooooooly shamoly. Ew ew ew. Totally agree with SunnyKatt. It’s just… a mess. Like the YYG forums… Eeh, it’ll probably grow on me.

I don’t like it at all. I don’t mind the adverts (if they aren’t too annoying though), but its way too bloated and I don’t dig the Yoyo Games color design for the forum (the older one also had it, but it was a lot less “greenish” and it had more color distinction for each element).

You need to keep in mind that we’ve been forced to upgrade early, so the skin is not yet finished. We certainly plan to develop it more (though i’m not sure how much of it will change).

As for the adverts, sigh… seriously. If you’ve been living under some type of internet rock, you’ll see that many many other sites also have adverts, even this blog. I’m sure in a few days you’ll not even notice them.

The colors aren’t bad, it’s how they’re handled. It looks like someone just thought if they put as many shades of green in as possible,it would look alright. There’s no real attention paid to making it aesthetically pleasing, just information overload.

My suggestions would be for a more subdued colorscheme, like the previous one. Use the company colors for the main headings, and a few other well-placed accent colors, and make everything else white, black, or desaturated greens and blues.

I also like the convenience of the “Recently Added” and whatnot, but those boxes need to be somewhere else. They look terrible there, constrain the main content, and contribute to information overload. At least on my resolution, after “Recently Added” and the side ad, there’s a collumn of unused space which just looks awkward. Maybe they should give those things their own pages, or put the info at the bottom of the main index next to “Who’s Online”.

EDIT: I left this window open for a while, so I didn’t see Chronic’s post until after I made mine. Noting that it was forced early and will be revised, I can understand most of the problems. I still think some of the suggestions would be nice, though.

Not a fan.

And there’s no point even making suggestions, because from past examples we can see YoYo Games are unlikely to change it any time soon.

Don’t like it. A skin change is OK, and if it changes further then good, but from the preview it’s less widescreen friendly which is bad for me.

If you read GMDigest, Mike Dailly seems absolutely adamant about making GMC green, much like Sandy Duncan’s pathological hate for the GM hammer logo. I’m not holding out much hope for a big change to the look, but I do pray that the more subdued design tangibleLime came up with is a selectable option eventually.

Those colors look terrible. I’ve got nothing against Mike Dailly, but if he’s going to choose the colors, he might want to learn some of the basic color concepts.

After quickly googling a few articles on choosing website color schemes, I found an applicable one: http://www.pallasweb.com/color.html. Here are a few quotes from it:

“Many websites today clearly reflect the negative effect of bad color choices. People often choose colors to ‘dress-up’ their site without any regard to their site’s objectives.”

“Here are several mistakes commonly made in selecting website colors: [...] The web site uses saturated background colors that fight with your site’s content and make it difficult to read and navigate.”

If the ads were not on the side I’d be fine with it.

Well, I was a little harsh at first. It isn’t aweful I guss.
But I still prefer the old one.

It makes me want to cut myself… But seriously. It’s a tad on the disgusting side.
I’m not sure if I’ll ever want to visit the GMC again with those Ad’s in place.

Personally, I’m not bothered about the adverts. After all, I do have ad-blocking on all websites except GameMaker Blog.

It’s really strange, I don’t see any ad unless I’m logged out. And I’ll always stay logged in. I can see the ad on the screenie, but not on the demo.