This update is like if I burned down your home, then I say it's okay look at this new shed I got for you. Look at the bright paint on the new shed, isn't it more colorful looking?
Meanwhile everything you owned that was in your home was all lost and gone. And the new shed has no electricity, no water, no heat, no air conditioner, no way to cook food. But it has some small feature added like a welcome mat to clean your shoes, so you're told it is a great improvement.
There is active work to solve these problems as they represent problems for us too, which are far more important.
Your comments are heavy, irrational, providing some feedback yes, but mostly extreme exaggerations. You are taking your claims too far, only because you have some issue with styling or whatever.
The fact you want a simple hut to justify your emotional aspects over the previous forum, which everyone loved [it's the same forum, same content, more functionalities], is not in consistency with the reality of what must be done.
The last forum software was crawling at 250 visitors, and you want it "back". So it can lag and leave us in the middle of the road, I guess.
The imagined situation is more like this: You had a house, you couldn't fit in it, it was falling apart. So some people come in and move you to a mansion to a better and safer place. You cry while you leave your house of course but the tornado, hacking or whatever, was going to topple it anyway.
Then these people take you to a mansion instead, and you complain because you have to wait for 3-4 days to get your new suntan bed and because someone didn't bring you the correct suntan lotion.
Now the slight joking aside, please be patient as these issues are being resolved.
I ran a bunch of keywords such as "addiction" and so on, as these are posts with replies that can help others. They do not show up in the search results.
Thanks for informing, we will look into this and seek to resolve it.
The problem is that the previous database is not 100% compatible with this system. I think this forum could be made to function better than the previous with few updates, however, it will never work right with the previous database. I do also think that the previous forum was enough in terms of complexity, functionality, and look (only a dark theme was needed on my part).
I understand your feelings about this, I hope that everything will solved eventually. Also keep in mind that upgrades and changes are needed, this modern look might be more appealing for newcomers, even if I'm highly on the side of minimalism for a hundred reasons.
Never is a big word, there will certainly be some differences, but there are also some perks. One of the perks is that if certain programmers respond, we are going to do tremendous things for the forums, for both the history of the JoS and the future. None of this was possible in the previous software.
Perhaps one of the most cautious people to certain changes has been me. There was endless forethought and planning for this that goes back 3 years in time.
However, if you see a forum software collapsing over 250 active users, you cannot expect the 25k active users to be lifted by it.
This platform for example, can and might support in the future a minimalist theme. The previous one wasn't even loading the pages, and it was a heavily paid, armored and powerful server, still to no avail because the software sucked.
My best recommendation for future points on all of these matters is to not try to judge the whole universe based on the size of your own shoes, because you will more than likely understand that bigger things cannot exist within the confine of this "comfort".