[Mindi]

Originally Posted by archaeolept

Christ almighty.

the forums have gone from being ugly and functional to being ugly and non-functional.

I am assaulted by flashing adds and animated gifs at the side of thread titles. These make it impossible for me to stare at the page. I'm pretty sure it was discovered back in the internet prehistory that flashing objects, animated gifs, and the like are at best extremely distracting and at worst impossible to look at.

I had to block all images from shrapnel in order for me to be able to read the forums

It seems, however, that little things like "reply" buttons (and all the others) are also actually images, and so blocked.

Hence, the whole forum is currently a disaster.

The only addition to the ads is the one on the side. The one at the top of the forums was there before and considering we shrunk the latest news blocks on the side, the ad box takes up no additional space. There is no animated gifs at the side of thread titles unless someone has chosen a animated post icon of which there are only 2.