IS IT JUST ME OR IS GB WHITE NOW?!

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#1  Edited By BPRJCTX

It looks like crap, and it's hard to read.

I had to turn brightness all the way down.

It basically hurts my eyes.

And it looks like Gamespot...

http://www.gamespot.com/

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#2  Edited By Green_Incarnate

You can switch between black and white. Hover over your name in the top right, and change it back to black.

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#3  Edited By Claude

Gamespot also has a darker version.

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#4  Edited By iamjohn

The white site is, always has been and always will be terrible.

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#5  Edited By AlexW00d

@iAmJohn said:

The white site is, always has been and always will be terrible.

I just switched it over to see; why the fuck does this even exist? It's so ugly.

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Hover over your name in the upper right corner and click the black "A"

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#7  Edited By Ben_H

I have never liked the white site, though I can understand why it exists. Some people hate reading sites with black backgrounds. I feel the opposite, which is why the new Tested site is so jarring.

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I've used the White site exclusively for quite a long time. It looks great, and the Black site looks weird to me now.

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#9  Edited By Draxyle

I never even knew that function existed. Left it there three seconds before switching back forever. Darker backgrounds are always better on the internet just as a design sensibility for ease of the eyes.

Edit: Well the homepage isn't that bad, but the forums are still way too bright.

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#10  Edited By TheCreamFilling

Racists.

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#11  Edited By Dany

The white site is the best site.

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#12  Edited By Kazona

It's called calibrating your monitor. Might wanna try it sometime.

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#13  Edited By NlGHTCRAWLER

White reminds me of Comicvine, and you are no Comicvine.

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#14  Edited By SlightConfuse

white is the better looking version

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#15  Edited By DrFlapjack

I wish I could use the black site, but reading white text on a blackground gives me a headache.

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#16  Edited By WinterSnowblind

Reading white text on a dark background hurts my eyes, so I much prefer the white version. For some it's the opposite.. thus, there's an option.

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#17  Edited By joshthebear

Black GB 4 Life.

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I thought you were writing a poem at first. lol

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#19  Edited By MooseyMcMan

@Dany said:

The white site is the best site.

Racist.

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#20  Edited By Dany

@MooseyMcMan said:

@Dany said:

The white site is the best site.

Racist.

I like my sites like I like my men.

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#21  Edited By Jrinswand
@iAmJohn said:

The white site is, always has been and always will be terrible.

No way! I made the switch from black to white a couple of weeks ago and my eyes have been thanking me ever since.
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#22  Edited By MooseyMcMan

@Dany said:

@MooseyMcMan said:

@Dany said:

The white site is the best site.

Racist.

I like my sites like I like my men.

RACIST.

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#23  Edited By BPRJCTX

Oh god, thank you, my GB is BACK!!!

I don't know why it just switched to white, i didn't even know there was an option.

I thought this was like part of their redesign or something.

But i'm glad i have the option, cos it is just horrible, especially the forums.

Maybe it's because the white version is now standard?

If so, bad move...

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It's just you dude. Black sites still here.

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#25  Edited By MarkWahlberg

@Danysaid:

@MooseyMcMan said:

@Dany said:

The white site is the best site.

Racist.

I like my sites like I like my men.

Glaringly flawed?

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#26  Edited By Gaff
@Dany

@MooseyMcMan said:

@Dany said:

The white site is the best site.

Racist.

I like my sites like I like my men.

Hard to see with the naked eye?
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#27  Edited By BPRJCTX

@wewantsthering said:

I thought you were writing a poem at first. lol

Lol, yeah, it kinda looks like one.

Btw, have you guys tried logging off, using Ccleaner, or a similar program, and opening GB on a new page?

That's how i got it, so it might be because the white is now the stardard version of the site.

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#28  Edited By JasonR86

Why is this thread getting so much attention for what is such an easy fix?

OP, locate your username in the top right and hover your mouse over it. At the bottom of the drop-down box are two capitalized A's. One is in a black font over a white background and one is in white font over a black background. This refers to how the page is displayed. Pick whichever one you want.

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#29  Edited By MooseyMcMan

@JasonR86 said:

Why is this thread getting so much attention for what is such an easy fix?

The reason is the same as every time someone brings this up: It turns into a serious and well thought out discussion of race and stereotypes in the United States.

By which I mean people type "Racist" without any meaningful statements.

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#30  Edited By Claude
@JasonR86 said:

Why is this thread getting so much attention for what is such an easy fix?

OP, locate your username in the top right and hover your mouse over it. At the bottom of the drop-down box are two capitalized A's. One is in a black font over a white background and one is in white font over a black background. This refers to how the page is displayed. Pick whichever one you want.

Obviously someone didn't read the thread. The OP mentions a couple of posts above you that the situation was fixed.
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#31  Edited By Jimbo
@MooseyMcMan said:

@Dany said:

@MooseyMcMan said:

@Dany said:

The white site is the best site.

Racist.

I like my sites like I like my men.

RACIST.

SEXIST.
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#32  Edited By JasonR86

@Claude said:

@JasonR86 said:

Why is this thread getting so much attention for what is such an easy fix?

OP, locate your username in the top right and hover your mouse over it. At the bottom of the drop-down box are two capitalized A's. One is in a black font over a white background and one is in white font over a black background. This refers to how the page is displayed. Pick whichever one you want.

Obviously someone didn't read the thread. The OP mentions a couple of posts above you that the situation was fixed.

Obviously I never read threads because that is for jerks! I just come in and yell things and expect everyone to hang on my every word.

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#33  Edited By alternate

@Claude said:

Gamespot also has a darker version.

Ricardo Torres? He left.

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#34  Edited By mordukai

@Claude said:

Gamespot also has a darker version.

Yeah. The one where they hire managers who are completely unqualified for the job and said managers end up firing one of the guys that has been with them since the beginning and thus causing a mass exodus of people which leave said site in such a rotten state that it takes them years to recover.

You know, kinda like how Apple board of decided that they want a guy who used to work for a soda company run "their" company instead of the guy who founded it.

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#35  Edited By BPRJCTX

@MooseyMcMan said:

@JasonR86 said:

Why is this thread getting so much attention for what is such an easy fix?

The reason is the same as every time someone brings this up: It turns into a serious and well thought out discussion of race and stereotypes in the United States.

By which I mean people type "Racist" without any meaningful statements.

Yeah, i just don't understand you Americans...

Here in Europe, everybody's Racist, and everybody's happy.

White ppl hate black ppl, black ppl hate white ppl, and so on...

I have a kind of different approach to all this...

I'm not racist, i hate everybody equally!!!

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#36  Edited By alternate

@MooseyMcMan said:

@JasonR86 said:

Why is this thread getting so much attention for what is such an easy fix?

The reason is the same as every time someone brings this up: It turns into a serious and well thought out discussion of race and stereotypes in the United States.

By which I mean people type "Racist" without any meaningful statements.

nah. they say Racist as it is one of the few Tested memes that never gets old.

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#37  Edited By BPRJCTX

@mordukai said:

@Claude said:

Gamespot also has a darker version.

Yeah. The one where they hire managers who are completely unqualified for the job and said managers end up firing one of the guys that has been with them since the beginning and thus causing a mass exodus of people which leave said site in such a rotten state that it takes them years to recover.

You know, kinda like how Apple board of decided that they want a guy who used to work for a soda company run "their" company instead of the guy who founded it.

Bam!!!

There it is.

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#38  Edited By Claude
@JasonR86 said:

@Claude said:

@JasonR86 said:

Why is this thread getting so much attention for what is such an easy fix?

OP, locate your username in the top right and hover your mouse over it. At the bottom of the drop-down box are two capitalized A's. One is in a black font over a white background and one is in white font over a black background. This refers to how the page is displayed. Pick whichever one you want.

Obviously someone didn't read the thread. The OP mentions a couple of posts above you that the situation was fixed.

Obviously I never read threads because that is for jerks! I just come in and yell things and expect everyone to hang on my every word.

HIYOOO!!!
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#39  Edited By JasonR86

@Claude said:

@JasonR86 said:

@Claude said:

@JasonR86 said:

Why is this thread getting so much attention for what is such an easy fix?

OP, locate your username in the top right and hover your mouse over it. At the bottom of the drop-down box are two capitalized A's. One is in a black font over a white background and one is in white font over a black background. This refers to how the page is displayed. Pick whichever one you want.

Obviously someone didn't read the thread. The OP mentions a couple of posts above you that the situation was fixed.

Obviously I never read threads because that is for jerks! I just come in and yell things and expect everyone to hang on my every word.

HIYOOO!!!
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@Jimbo said:
@MooseyMcMan said:

@Dany said:

@MooseyMcMan said:

@Dany said:

The white site is the best site.

Racist.

I like my sites like I like my men.

RACIST.

SEXIST.
HOMOPHOBE. 
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#41  Edited By LordAndrew

Racist.

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#42  Edited By Justin258

The internet needs far more black backgrounds with white text. It's far easier on the eyes.

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#43  Edited By NegativeCero

I've maybe seen the white site once and immediately switched back. I'm pretty surprised people use it.

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#44  Edited By MrKlorox

White is too bright. They had the sense not to make the "black" version actually black. Why not grey-down the white site a little bit?

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#45  Edited By matthias2437

CAPS LOCKS IS FUN GAIS. But yes it is an option, I used the white site for a while but liked the black more.

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#46  Edited By XxBarretxX

I like my websites like the way I like to meet my women. dark and unable to see what's coming there way....

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#47  Edited By sweep  Moderator

I like the way you linked to gamespot in the OP. Because we wouldn't know how to get there, otherwise!

You can alternate between white and black backgrounds by mousing over your username in the navigation bar and clicking the white or black A in the drop-down menu.

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As theis issue has been resolved and there is nothing else happening here except bitching about gamespot (yawn) this thread is being locked.