I am truly sorry for complaining before. I really see that this new redesign and format is actually working for me. I see more business in a single day than before when the scammers and spammers were here. Much airier place to do business cleanly, I admit.
Don't feel badly, a lot of members who were complaining a month or so ago are now feeling pretty sheepish. Why? .....because they now realize what you do, that it was all for the better. At least *you* have the honesty and the humility to admit it.
Believe it or not, we don't make changes to annoy good users (although some will still think so). The whole change to the established member thing was more a solution to a problem that had to be solved somehow (too many spammers/scammers). It's not an ideal solution, but it's better than what was there before at the very least.
It DID seem VERY annoying in the beginning, but I ate crow and felt sorry for complaining BTW, crow was needed now that I saw an increase in business.
You are not alone. We also hurt in the beginning when big changes happened in DP, but now cool & calm all the time. Good changes for trustworthy deals and get real and effective knowledge there.
You are not the first who complained about new redesign and format. There are still many more who are not satisfied, but slowly and steadily people are finding quality always counts. I am pleased you are seeing more business in a day than it was before the changes. The basic reason is, today there are more genuine and reliable people who come here with a purpose and to achieve something. You must always remember that the change is always for betterment, and made for the benefits of the both existing, and perspective members, for helping them gain, grow and learn many new ideas, and not to dissuade them.
I "shooorre" (as my Mum love to prolong sure) ate a plateful of crow when I discovered so much action so dang soon at my articles advertisement. Didn't taste hot, yet I knew to apologize because the board mods WERE right!
I used to love the mods too, but after 22 infractions (warnings) my love is not *quite* what it was in the past ha*ha!
Probably you realized it late ! But I did it when I logged into this new forum after so many months and once I read all the new rules and this "suggestion and feedback" section, I felt I am in a safer and better place now ! That's the first feel I got ! Thank you team for that! As Shawn mentioned it might not be the ideal thing but, its really really better than the previous!
Ive used xenforo a LOT, and I was excited to come here and see it. I'm still learning things here as DP admin had to squeeze a lot into this board to keep it feeling like the old DP forum. When I first logged in with this new dp script, I was interested to see how the likes/dislikes would convert. I was glad that the likes were migrated! I was a peon when I first logged in a few weeks ago, but within an hour, I was recognized as an old user. I'm sure there are thousands of ppl who have some sort of complaint about the new board, but they're not worried enuogh to make threads about it. Glad you are feeling better about the changes, at least