[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]

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!

Yeah! Quit yer bellyachin'! FreeRepublic is just like the government. Send us yer money and we'll make it BIGGER and BETTERBIGGER. We're doing it for YOU! Welcome to BIG REPUBLIC!!!

[SarahW]

it looked too old fashioned. Hey, this IS a conservative forum. Slick bells and whistles aren't all they're cracked up to be.

I also hate the fact that nobody thought to give us the option to keep the old interface for our personal use when the non-beta version was implemented.

I wanted to do something quickly this morning and couldn't. This new interface should be EASIER to use, not less so.

At the very least defaults should have been set to make the interface as much like the old interface as possible.

Buttons should have the same names; prefs should be set so that posts scroll as on the old version, with titles only; The sidebar should have been set so that users are already subscribed to former sidebar categories.

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[dansangel]

"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!

You've said it best! Amen!

.45MAN:***ping*** sweetie!