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since I'd also been wondering why you did this redesign.

I can sympathize both with your viewing it as your personal project, and your trying to accommodate the community that's landed, sometimes with freak flags flying, all over your personal project.

And I can also see the conflict here.

When I'm working on a personal project, it's my vision and I don't want any interference.

But when I was running online forums, I was constantly getting feedback, and requesting it if it wasn't volunteered. Polling people, at least informally. Trying to find out what they wanted. And following those cues.

You're doing a great balancing act, with DU being both a personal project for you and a very large community you're preserving and leading.

I do applaud that.

And I never thought DU looked old-fashioned. I thought of it as classic. I'm sorry you ever felt, even for a second, that you had to say something apologetic about it. Classics are classic for a reason. (I am wondering which other sites are ones you consider very modern-looking.)

But I'd had no idea DU3 was on its last legs in terms of coding.

Anyway, I hope this all works out.