>_< am i the first to see this?

bahhh!!!!

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omg... april rooolzzz!!!!

>_< first to post, first to be the fool !!

Yes, please. Larger text size and more repeating background shapes. The logo truly speaks of freshness. And rebirth. And fertility.

It is as if my dream of becoming very tiny and inhabiting the fabric of one of Ronald Reagan's suits has come true. I never want to wake up.

> If you see any bugs

I see Bugs Bunny

Folks, have you tried this in Safari Webkit Nightly Build r31447?
Webfonts rrrride, and wreak havoc on Typophile!

One minor bug: Dezcom has to update his icon, I guess. Looks like his Veil of Veronica.
For the record:

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The repeated shape with the colors and the lines in the background are so ugly. Common guys is this the best you can do? I used to love logging into the old typophile and enjoy reading anything within the old design. Change is great but usually a redesign goes from something bad to a something better. In this case its the opposite. How long do we need to suffer with this design?

K J

This is the sort of thing that might provoke the Inquisitor!*

For some reason it is still impressive as hell that you can do this on a dime even if I already knew in you could. :-)

I am longing to see a real redesign if one exists!

*The Inquisitor is a self-repairing simulant who survived until the end of time and, coming to the conclusion that there is no God and no afterlife, decided that the only point of life was to live a worthwhile life. He is on a journey through time, seeking out the worthless and erasing them from existence, allowing a different person to exist in their place — the person who would have been conceived. And yes, I am getting my Geek-on! This is a Red Dwarf reference.

> we have redesigned our identity to include the futuristic electron blazing

The Typophysical Society (?)

This is nice but where is the giant RSS button?

Well, I have a problem with this layout. In the forum page (http://www.typophile.com/forums) the table of topics 'crop' the text, so I need to to reduce the text size.

April, April

cR@aAzZY sTyYyYle!!!:P :) :D ;) ;)

What a nightmare!
Type is something everybody uses everywhere in all colors, shapes forms. The first thing a type lover would expect in a forum for type is to see TYPE! clear blunt and beautiful.

the redesign simply fails to do that.
Although too dark (don't we all assess type, black on white?) the stripped background is witty enough, but what are those watermark logo repetition?
And an ellipse for a typography forum?! Come on guys! That's your best shot to give Typophile a cutting edge in design? "futuristic electron blazing" is like on of those tag lines of the nineties!
It definitely lacks confidence and the real-substance attitude.

Typofile seems to immature with age.

This is cool! But where can I put a forum signature? And why don't each of our comments have a link to our AIM and ICQ numbers?

Yeah, that design is hideous. I hope, tomorrow the "real" design will be up. If not, I'll post my constructive criticism here... Wow, that'd be a lot!

Very 1995 indeed. But for the tables. fully using valid HTML+CSS is anything but retro. Come on guys, you can do better: let the tables rule! Bring in some transparent-gif spacer images,...!

It's a joke? Isn't it? If not, I think, James have chosen exact the right time to leave ...

Maybe if I could read it, I'd have a comment.

How about a switch, so those that only want to look can have the new format; those that want to read can have the old format?

mmmmm, the first of april. just threw up when i saw this and more than just a little. *wiping mouth*

Yowser! Hilarious, but: I'll come back tomorrow.

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Ever since I chose to block pop-ups, my toaster's stopped working.

It's funny: it's supposed to be a joke, but there are actually some nice things in it: The increased type size, the fast loading because the Flash is gone, the large text buttons ("7 new comments") …

hi sort of new here so will tread carefully.

Ok I opened Safari, opened my quick bookmarks, turned away from the monitor, to turn back and see the new design.First I threw my hands in the air and away from the keyboard just incase the return key blows my Mac, "oh s*%t!!! the forum has been hacked!!!" delve further to find that it is the new design. I don't know what I was more afraid of, the hack or the new design. At least the hack would be temporary.

Then considering the elements and the background all I see are nose rings, navel rings... any kind of piercing ring with the ball (do a search on google)... and a Don Johnson shiny brown, olive to yellow suit.

Looked at the date on the calendar... aha!... I mean phew!... ahem...

talented people

I second Ralf:
Flash is nice for the ‘Featured Face’, but it seems to have noticeable slowed down the performance. Big text: yeah; actually I didn’t notice, as I always have overridden the tiny default with my browser settings.
And: finally I can spot the inline hyperlinks, hooray! (though they don’t have to be green …)

For the next (real) update: Can’t we have <blockquote> and some other semantic, non-hazardous elements? And please allow <b> and <i>, too. In a typographic community, not everything that may be italicized is really meant to be emphasized.

you bet!!!!

i´ll pray this would be only a april 1st joke :)