Well, honestly, i liked the black, but i'm also very accustomed to working on sites and message boards with black backgrounds. The message board i've been visiting for 10 years now has always had a black background. i guess i just got used to it. When i started comming here, everything was black, so that's what i got used to here. Like Lookingforsomething, i say give me a week or so to get used to the new changes, i don't think that i 'dislike' them, i think i just need to get used to them. One thing i did really like was the new thing with profiles where you can leave messages, not private messages, but ones that everyone can see, that's kinda cool. Thanks Torq for letting me know that you can take the stats off the top, i don't really have much interest in those, so if i can take them off, alls the better for me! Also, i agree with annie, the server was weird almost all day yesterday, had a couple of hours where neither Draco or i could access the site at all. Then it suddenly came back and i figured it had a cyber fart or something. Came back around 2:30am (EST) and found everything still in black, but profiles were down and the chat link kept linking to the forums, that got weird. Torq, i tried sending you an IM, but i didn't know if i remembered your screenname correctly, so if you got one around 3am, that was me.
All in all, i've got no real complaints and eagerly await all the changes to be made and finalized so i can go back to using everything as i used to.
One little suggestion i do have though, maybe until everything's finalized, putting up some type of notice at the top of the page "This site is undergoing upgrades, please check back soon" or something like that. i know a lot of new people come through here and i wouldn't want to miss out on them because they don't know everything the site has to offer. Not sure how feesible that is, but it's just my two cents.