BTW, I did want to respond to some of AP's comments:
1) In most places we will be changing it so that it will show the comments when you click on the skin. The reason it's off now is a performance issue.
2) We wont' be going back to showing all the skins an author made in a single swoop. It was a database nightmare. Some skin authors, particularly the more popular ones, have hundreds of skins. That's simply too hard on the server. Right now it displays 25 skins at a time which seems pretty reasonable to us.
3) Has already been addressed in Friday's update. (the nav bar is now at the bottom as well)
4) We agree this is a good feature (which sections are displayed). Right now we don't have this because we are concentrating on site performance.
The same is true about personal themes. Getting the site to be very fast in its performance is our top priority. Once we are satisified that the site is running very VERY fast we can then look at adding more per user customization options (such features toss out all the caching). But these things will be back.
You want dark themes, We'll have dark themes. You want to pick which sections you see, you'll have that too. But right now we just can't do it. We're focused on making the site fast and stable.
5) Search already works. Just use articles. it's the same thing under the covers. We'll add a "Forums" category but it's cosmetic as it will do the same thing as the articles.
6) We will be making it so that if you click on a given other's profiles you will be able to view authors skins. It will look the same as the My Skins tab but for that author.
