[smith288]

....ok, i actually love the new look....

[pollywog]

I hate this new look myself. With everything changing in our government and the world , I would have hoped that at least the Free Republic format would remain the same. PLEASE, PLEASE, GO BACK TO THE OLD. I am LOST!

[Aggie Mama]

Actually, I'm a bit frustrated with it. Where the heck is all of the breaking news stuff????????

[Octar]

I don't like mony of the changes. Self-search is now useless.

[smith288]

1) Take a deep breath
2) Navigate the screen a bit and play with the links, its not hard
3) Ask questions, I would be glad to help you all.
4) Not to nit pick but you all had a week to look around as Jim R put the beta up for consumption on the header of the old site...

[mewzilla]

Admittedly I'm not the brightest bulb in the firmament and while the new look did cause me a certain amount of angst this morning, I'm coming around. I can't begin to appreciate the amount of work this must have taken. So hats off to the Robinsons, and in the meantime I'll see if I can grow some more little grey cells. Well...a lot more grey cells.

[Budge]

Wow!! Finally! Looks great, RUNS great!

[Tex-Con-Man]

Yea...It's really disturbing...took me 10 whole seconds to get used to...SHEEESH!

[MissAmericanPie]

I don't like some of it, the constant scrolling down, from replies to my posts and down through the threads trying to see which post's have the most responses is..dizzing ugh. But the graphics are awsome and some of the customizing advantages are pretty kewl.

[dixiechick2000]

"....ok, i actually love the new look...."

So do I.
I have to admit, though, when I first saw the new format I felt intimidated.
But after navigating around a few minutes, I had my sidebar customized to my liking.
The only thing I'm not crazy about are the small fonts.

[BradyLS]

I'm not too keen on the new 'do. Sorry. Keep it simple. I like red, white, and blue as a pallette of colors, but braining me with flags and eagles, the way some other sites do, is overkill.

We're in the middle of a website redeisgn where I work, and it's terrible. We're constantly making clients and even employees guessing where things are, even though the content remains pretty much the same. And isn't "refreshing" as our web administrator tells us, it's annoying! And we do it every year. Auugh!

[Spiff]

I can't find the "latest posts" button unless I'm in a thread.

It says I can change sidebars by going to the "topics" page, however, there is NO topics page that I can find.

[McGavin999]

Come on you guys, we go through this every time we change something. It's new, it's exciting, there's plenty to keep your mind shape and occupied so you don't get into trouble ;o)

I love the new look and it's great to be able to jump from forum to forum, to be able to customize the page the way you want, just play around with it a bit. Go to your preferences, click on the buttons and see what happens.

[mercy]

It's slow. I hate it. In a week I won't remember what the old format looked like. It's slow.

[TheLion]

Once we get used to it we won't want to go back. I love having the replies in self search, all in one place. It saves having to navigate around.

[michigander]

This new design makes me....

wonder if the moderators are lost too as there are about 10 threads running concerning this topic.

[lawgirl]

I think that the new look is FABULOUS! ANd I thank the whole FR team for taking what must have been HUNDREDS of man hours to do all of this. I think it looks fantastic, and if you guys take the time to look around you'll see a lot of great new feature--head over to My Preferences to start.

The site looks fabulous and VERY professional- which I think is very very important to the way outsiders see us. I never did like the look of the old FR- it looked too old fashioned.

Thank you FR team for giving us a gorgeous new site with LOTS of great new features that are very practical. Everyone else- quit your whining and start learning how to use the new stuff! Sheesh you whiners sound like my 73 year old grandmother complaining about trying to figure out the internet!

[BradyLS]

The fonts in the subscription sibear are way too small to read. The colors used to offest the subscription topics from the background doesn't help, either. Is it really necessary to load up the entire reply and replied-to post in the self-search section? Some people are going to have reams of stuff popping up! The old self-search was better.

[DoctorMichael]

New Improved FreeRepublic...............Not.

[fella]

My only complaint so far is that when I go to an article and return to the forum I wind up at the top of the page instead of where I left from. Other than scrolling down is there a fix for this?

[strela]

re the new format ...

"Who moved my cheese?"

Yuck, ewwww, yikes, bleeeech. I don't much care for the new format, but change is inevitable and I'll just have to adapt or find another forum from which to pontificate.