I don’t care about the appearance, but the performance is much improved. The old theme was molasses on my desktop and fairly responsive on a mobile device. This theme is responsive on my desktop (I haven’t tried it on a mobile device yet).
My previous logon issues were due to my use of an offbeat (though up to date) browser not playing nice with the old or new theme. In the process of figuring that out Elsinore deleted my account. I was able to re-register easily, but that only got me to a “Spectator” access level. I could not post or respond to a post. She bumped me to “Participant” and this message is the result.
Thanks for your efforts here.