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Originally Posted by starry_prune
I am baffled by the DS bashing. There are elements of the site which have been badly run, HOWEVER the forums are the best on the entire internet. Where else can you see such a comprehensive selection of different forums together, which are easy to read and get a lot of use? General, gaming, movies, broadcasting, music, movies, advice and even more specialist ones.
Now, the adverts are becoming a huge problem across the board. (snip)
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Some of us were part of DS from the beginning, even before it became DS. Even before the before, became DS....
We don't bash it for no reason, a bit like any break up, you really miss something that was a part of your life. We miss what it was, that's what makes us so angry.
I agree it's still an excellent collection of topics, but the whole emphasis of the wider site changed.
DS was originally a anorak site to talk about broadcasting, satellite tv etc and each "owner" of each part of the site filled it with news. It was excellent.
What DS became is a celebrity dominated non-anarak site to try and appeal to the masses. Well, all the masses that like all the celeb rubbish, I don't.
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Originally Posted by Media Boy
It now reopen...
I hope Cable Forum don't go for that look - too much white and some of the TEXT is too big.
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I like big text, but the white makes my eyes bleed.
It is though, an improvement on the previous look.
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Originally Posted by adzii_nufc
Damn it is pretty awful 
Then again, why do I care. This is the only forum I've ever been active on so I'm probably expectant of it being as basic and easy to use as possible, the best part of CF is just how simple it is. |
I am starting to understand myself that its harder than it looks keeping things "simple"...
But that really is the key. Forum sites should be nice to look at and and simple to use. If you want people to spend their leisure time on them, that is.
I think with this site (I'm starting to understand more about the mechanics of such things) is heavily modified which would have cost the owner a small fortune, unless he's done it all himself.
So, simple to use, but not quite so simple under the bonnet.