[pepperhead]

It was on the beta site for a month. All the complaints were handled as they came up. All those who ignored the beta site will have to wait their turn. You had your chance to give input.

Tell John what is wrong. I'm a programmer. Telling me "I hate it" doesn't get you noticed. People who don't have specific complaints generally are just complainers who eventually just go along with whatever happens. In two years, they will complain about the next format too. But they will go along with that one too.

Be specific. It shows you really care.

Ok Appy, My suggestion since it's doubtful that Free Republic is going to go back to the old format is this. Either have more articles listed in the sidebar or let us pick a number of articles to be displayed in the sidebar. I think it is a good suggestion. It is quite obvious that many people liked the old sidebar and that is basically what we don't like about the new site design.

[B Knotts]

You can *already* pick what you want in the sidebar. Click on "Topics" in the upper right, and click on something you want in your sidebar (like "Breaking News). Once you are in there, you will see a little link on the left (right under the "United We Stand" picture), where it says "Click here to subscribe."

That way you can have just what you want over there. I now have Breaking News, US: Oregon, and US: Washington over there. I like it better than the old sidebar.

[Petronski]

Be specific. It shows you really care.

Provide a way to eliminate the left flag gutter. Provide a way to eliminate the regional comments at the top of the page. Restore the font size (yes, yes, one can go View | Text Size, but that screws up the formatting of all other web pages). Provide a way to restore the old format of the pages in toto.

My question is the same as that voiced by others above: Why change?

[tet68]

I can't deal with the font size, makes my head hurt.

I suppose I'll get used to it, but don't feel it's any kind of improvement.

[AppyPappy]

Thank you and I agree.