Thanks for all the feeback guys, no problems with it at all, we need it to be able to find any issues that do occur. There's going to be some things that they've changed and we'll all have to get used to them, other things that are broken and we can fix them and other things that really are not an issue for functionality but are an issue for aesthetics, these last issues will be addressed and they were one of the reasons we held off a lot longer than many sites when we considered the upgrade. Let me reiterate, the colour scheme etc will not be staying like this, this is the natural state of the software and it will change, maybe not as quickly as everyone wants but it will change.
It's definitely not a change for changes sake. The upgrade was discussed ages ago in the FM area as was the need for the articles etc to return to the site, this is all part and parcel of that, restoring the articles etc needs a platform to do it, previously we had login issues because of bridging software, now we'll have none of those issues, it will all be smooth and articles, reviews etc will all be available as they should be, we needed the upgrade for that as well as other things, Even though we've had as much spam security we could they were getting through so I was doing a final manual check of every account, that's me taking details, checking them against a spam database and then approving them, now i don't need to do that.
There's all sorts of things that have improved with this upgrade that's of benifit to the running of the site as well as user functionality, I do appreciate though that it's changed, it's not the same as it was, but we've been through this a couple of times now over the last 7 years and it does work out ok.
Continue to list any issues and we'll work through them.