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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 1931451" data-attributes="member: 87">Guys, you have to live with the new default for awhile - I have to insure the template changes that are about to be made work in one place before I extrapolate them to other styles.Why tinker with the code?  Ask nemmerle.  Last week his Aquerrla site was one of over 23,000 victims to a worm targetted at phpbb2. It wiped pretty much every web related file it found off his server. While we're not vulnerable to that particular worm, we are vulnerable to others like it.  Every day we remain at RC4 instead of being on 3.0.3 increases the chance of a similar exploit being used against us.Since such changes require the large sections of the code to be rebuilt from the ground up, and since the 5th anniversary was coming up I wanted to make a style that was different yet familiar enough to be recognizable as ENWorld - sorta like the 3.5 core books are different from the 3.0 books but still recognizable.  The actually changes between the styles are few but it has more textures.  I guess I'm just a textures guy - I don't like looking at large panes of even color because such things don't exist in nature.  It has a mechanical feel which goes against that of a D&D or medieval site. Another reason for the change is to celebrate five years.  Very few sites reach that milestone.  Most sites on the internet last around two years at which point the founders burn out and no one is around to pick up the pieces.I know some of you don't like it - I expected as much. No matter how many hours I spend working on options someone will complain.  At least though the comments here have been kept civil and for that I'm thankful. But this isn't easy.  Vbulletin has around 16,000 lines of code spread over 230 files and 690 templates PER STYLE.  ENWorld's custom code adds around 4000 more lines and counting and around 70 more files - and that's not counting the reviews section.  And as much as I've learned and figured out I'm still very much a beginner at PHP.  I'm only now starting to really get my head around how PHP and MySQL interact and how vbulletin manipulates and stores the data provided to it.I'm only one person and there's only so much I can do. I've given up a lot to free up more time.  No one noticed, but Dusk is gone - taken down because I don't have the time for it. I haven't played D&D in almost a year - even at Gencon I was so tied up with ENnies business I couldn't find time to play.  Better to be part of a living site than the sole maintainer of a campaign setting no one but myself gives a damn about. It was a painful choice, but one I've made and would make again.Despite that though, I do enjoy what I'm doing immensely. I've given up my job and went back to school to learn how to do this sort of thing well enough so that I can support myself doing it professionally. The next year is going to be very rough, but I know it will be done.As you might be able to infer, I'm sitting on the edge of ranting here.  I've spent almost a full day away from the keyboard because after 3 months of careful work I really thought this new theme would go over better than it has.  And yet almost all the first messages were "let us change it back."  I'm not angry - but I am dissapointed.</blockquote>

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