To Renegade522: In firefox, try CTRL+F5.

To CptBrian: Such a simple fix too. Thank you for the visual. Still doesn't convey that it doubles as the themes toggle button, but then what kind of icon conveys both "night mode" and "toggle themes" at the same time?

A moon with a paint brush on it??

To CptBrian I will make one correction: Dark mode is available without logging in. From the navigation bar, click "More..." then "Night Mode" The fact that I have to tell you this is indicative of a poorly thought out design though.

I agree with Amei. I don't understand what warranted this change. You must have known it would stir up controversy, and now you seem to be trying make little tweaks to appease the complaints. What I'm worried about is that they will ONLY be tweaks; an attempt to win back the userbase, but only within the framework of this new look, and as long as that's the case, it doesn't matter what you do, it will still be a downgrade from what we had before. It seems like every option that was available before now has to be negotiated for, and as someone with an eye for visuals, it makes me sad, frustrated, anxious, and reserved about relying on this site in the future.

As far as I could tell, you had a perfect system in place before this change. Moderators could generate themes that had the potential to look stunning. A theme that resonated with fans and dazzled newcomers. If a user didn't like themes, they could change a setting so that themes (including font colors and the like) would be overriden with that users own preferred theme, like the default one.

You've brought the background back, but it only serves as half of the presentation. The foreground in the form of the panels are now locked to a discord-esqe gray, which do nothing to compliment the pallete of most backrops. In some cases the panels obstruct the most important element of the backdrop, due to the lack of any transperancy option. For an example, see the Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc page. A drawing of rayman, the element that makes the backdrop correlate to the game, is hidden by the panel in front.

As well, the themes only appear at all if the user opts-in to using Night Mode. Night mode is hidden in the "More..." tab in the navigation bar, and there is nothing on the site itself that hints at the themes hiding behind this toggle. Say you want to show your non-speedrunner friend your game page that you've worked on to make it appealing to the eyes. Your friend will simply see the unremarkable green/white theme. For someone like me at least, being able to see the product of what the old customization features could do in the form of a game page, would inspire me enough to sign up, despite not having a run to my name.

Actually, that IS kind of how I got onboard. Albeit, I did have a run to my name by then, but just the one, and I was not and am not an active runner, but I have friends who are. I signed up mostly because I wanted to design a good look for the leaderboard game I love, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. This change robs us of that privilige, for a reason I've yet to understand.

I understand that web development is hard work. Building something takes time and effort. But destruction doesn't; Destruction is easy. What I see here is the destruction of a functional and honesty darned good system, and then the construction of an inferior one. Time and effort was put into this, but to what end?

Lets say a carpenter went into my perfectly functional and up-to-code workplace office one night. And that he, without due notice, and without my blessing, proceeded to tear down the walls, toss most of my things into a trash container, and leave only the foundations of the room, only to then reconstruct it with cheaper materials , replace my computer with a less productive one, and replace only 60% of the possesions he tossed out. All by himself, mind, and all with his bare hands. It wouldnt matter if the labour was free. It wouldn't matter if the new computer was set up and ready to go. It wouldn't matter if the remaining items of said office that weren't headed to the dump, were where I left them. I would still resent him for it.