There are certainly going to be some bugs and issues to be working out in the upcoming days, but rest assured we're working on it. Keep in mind we didn't just redo the forums, we redid our entire site and condensed about 15 different websites into one. And ontop of all that we completely switched from classic asp programming to asp.net, which should hopefully result in quicker load times and more features down the road. Some of the issues people are having right now are a result of DNS changes to some of our domain names that are taking effect across the web. Anything with "hunting.net" in it is a thing of the past and everyone should be using "huntingnet.com" from now on. So replace your old "forum.hunting.net" bookmarks with "huntingnet.com/forum" ones.

The reason for the change in appearance is to give the board a similar look to the rest of HNI. In the past the forums kind of stood by themself and never resembled the rest of our website. Now that everything is under one roof, so to speak, we felt it would be better to have it all appear the same. It might take some getting used to, but a month from now you guys won't even remember the old site!

Oh, and you reeeeeeallly need to use a resolution of 1024x768 or higher in order to see the entire thing. Yes, there is a brown background but it fits in with the rest of the site, so deal with it.