New style testing - theme 3.0 & theme 2.0

I'm going to be the first to say, I think, that I really like what you are trying to get to here. Just a guess but do you use Emacs? I've always used dark themes in that and this reminds me slightly of a very nice theme called nightcoding nightcoder, something like that, or maybe it was a fluxbox theme.

I use Sublime Text 2 most of the time, and vim when editing over SSH.

You know, I think I'm going to admit defeat with the new style... I'm so close to admitting defeat. It's taken so much effort so far and only the basics are done.

vBulletin is the biggest pile of turd in the world. It's so, sooooo bad. Butchering it to try and make something cleaner is phenomenally hard to do.

And there are fundamental problems that the new style won't solve. Like the fact that it should be possible to have a filtered view of the world: If you only give a shit about Polo, then you shouldn't see anything else. If you only give a shit about Birmingham and Polo, then you shouldn't see anything else.

I am right on the edge of saying: Fuck this shit... this community has outgrown nearly every piece of software I know of.

The only thing that could cope with the size is the reddit code... but that brings problem of its own. Namely that upvoting isn't actually a useful thing for activity based discussions and that it just doesn't fit classifieds at all.

I love the elements of the new design that are in place and working, but hate the rough edges and limitations of vBulletin. My internal debate is whether to fight through the sludge and finish the vBulletin one, or just to fire up Django and to write what I believe to be the right solution once and for all (open source, inviting others to make it happen). It's a real internal struggle, but I do think the new design is a major step in the right kind of direction.

As for the grey background... it's definitely a big deal to people... I'll knock out a white background and see if that helps in the meantime.