h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Personally, I prefer the old 'Classic GOO' colour scheme - the new 'alabaster' scheme seems to bright and in-your-face. Also, the new skin feels to 'boxy' - the old goo feels much more friendly to the eyes. However, there is something in favour of the new skin - the layout. It makes more sense (to me) to have the lists of forum/guide/approved entries near the top of the page. And the full-screen-width journals are definitely a good idea.

However, the actual forums seem WORSE. The problem is that the oldest messages are displayed first, rather than the newest - so we still have to work our way through tons of message to get to where we want, but have to keep reloading! Annoying, to say the least.

Is there going to be support for the new smiley in forums, or just in articles? Seems a shame to waste it. Or have I just missed something?

The new smiley is : - P without the spaces.

I saw Jim Lynn post somewhere that a "jump to the end of the forum" function was in the fast track pipeline for implementation

;^)#

Yeah - I realised about the smiley as soon as I posted.

The 'jump to end of forum' function needs to be there soon though - otherwise it's just gonna take ages to get anywhere.

After a little thought, I've come up with an idea - when you make a forum post, the corresponding link that comes up in your homepage should link straight to that posting, or the first reply to it. That would help speed up forum surfing.

I agree. if there was some way that allowed you to pick up the forum where you left it from, ie last posted to it, it might save a lot of time catching up in some of the bigger fora (forums?)
Good work though

However, these buttons round the wrong way are really getting to me!