Okay perhaps after a long week i have bitten but cant believe this thread has got this long, but here goes.
Firstly there are too many people willing to give opinions and not time to improve, change the site or even contribute to other areas within the SIDC.
We changed the site the first time as the platform could not cope with the amount of users so the change came to the previous state, this was used after the people evaluated it and felt it was the right way to go, we were then forced to do an upgrade to encompass IE7, even though this was a Microsoft problem and not an SIDC problem. So we upgrade and no one likes it. Whatever we do we dont do it right.
But i do agree with listening to the masses which we are doing and you never know things may change down the line, but lets face it we are all sat behind keyboards talking and surely as said above the size, colour and style of text should not stop us having a chat and good time here.
Also there is no cost in joining the forum unlike SN and others, you have total access to our forum regardless of membership status, you can post in the for sale etc... with no need to pay a membership fee. The membership fee is for other things like discounts and shows etc..