Very nice redesign! Does make one feel that there is life here and things happening.
Will have to try that from home, apparently Invisible Defender thinks my work computer is a spam bot. @_@
EDIT: Ok, nevermind, randomly the second time when I tried to log in it worked.
Still have the redirect issue with the forums though and up until just now I’d never logged into the site before on this computer (or with IE, ew!).
I suppose this is a matter of opinion, really. Granted it’s not the most user-friendly software out there and it can be much more complex to customize, but it is also a project that is in development and such things do take time to perfect.
However for what it is – a no-frills, basic forum software – it is actually exactly that right from the start.