A follow-up, since there seems to be some confusion over how the whole wincustomize site is broken apart and what is actually part of the main site and what isn't...
WinCustomize as users experience it has three components:
- WinCustomize Main (www, skin galleries, uploading, downloading, skin pages, skin comments)
- Personal Pages (i.e. zoomba.wincustomize.com, has photo galleries, guestbook features, stats etc)
- Forums (forums.wincustomize.com)
The forums, due to their cross-site nature (every Stardock site shares the same core forum code, with each site having it's own forum "skin") need to generally be worked on as a separate project.
WinCustomize Main and the Personal Pages are where this project comes in. A complete update of those systems to make them perform better, look better and provide a much better user experience than the site we have today (which is difficult to navigate to say the least). This is a massive undertaking given the complexity of the site and the volume of content we work with.
The obscured preview at the start of this thread is only the beginning. Like I said, the mockups I saw last week were impressive and far-reaching.
Now, does this mean no forum love is upcoming? Not necessarily. We have been rolling out fixes and updates to the forums continually over the last year that have added considerable functionality and speed improvements. When we have spare dev time, we take a crack at the forums again. My earlier point was just that this major rework is focused first and foremost on the main site (and personal pages) and not the forums. I apologize if it came across as anything else.
