Minimal Skin

Would it be possible for the admins to install a minimal skin off one of the vbulletin sites please? Firstly my reasoning is that i'm currently browsing in links and this site is a disaster to try and navigate and post in it (reputation blobs are a major factor, the javascript code tags etc. that don't even work in text browsers are another).

Secondly, the site generally loads pretty slow. Given you're on a high powered cluster, that's a bandwidth issue, and serving less content can only help that.

Thirdly, there are a couple already made so it should be a simple matter to install one.

One thing to note is that since images aren't being requested in a text browser (notably adverts on various servers across the world), the site runs a lot faster than it does in opera. Do you guys run your own adserver that is insanely slow or is it down to external ads?

A minimal skin layout would be sweet.

I'd like this, too. I've had to turn images off before because of bandwidth issues on my end and the site is a pain to navigate. The reputation images, because of their "alt" text, make the page very wide so there's a lot of left and right scrolling to view the page.

Would be a nice thing to offer, imo. You can leave the ads, of course, but ditching a lot of other things would make it nice to use.

---John Holmes...

I just want to reraise this since we've heard nothing from the admins and I don't think it warrants a ticket.