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I worry that Rosey rolls her eyes everytime I post in this area of Bhuz, because I sound like a broken record.

Look, I really like the new Bhuz. I appreciate that it has bells and whistles even if I don't use them all. I already blog a lot hither and thither and don't need a new one, but I know that other people might like one. The layout sometimes feels a little crowded, but I got used to it. The gallery seems to be helping people figure out how to post pictures more frequently and the pm, while glitchy at times, is a nice solution for when members want to keep Bhuz mail on Bhuz. And the icons make me fell like I know people better.

But...and I know you know what I'm going to complain about...the banner. Some people love it, some people hate it, and smattering people have problems because of it. People have mentioned installing adblock or changing browsers (to get around the aesthetic problems some folks have, and the technical problems other people have.) but frankly some users can't change broswers or settings (like myself) other users aren't very technically savvy and enjoy the idea of changing settings on their computers about as much as they enjoy a trip to the dentist.

If the falling stars/changign backgrounds served a purpose other than looking pretty, I'd agree that the user should just suck it up and change or deal with the decline in access. But it doesn't serve any function other than looking nice. I personally feel that the goal of being easily accesible, worldwide, by a wide range of computer users on a wide variety of platforms/browsers should trump "Hey, we can use animation in our banners!." Any single one of those images used in the background of the banner would look smashing without the layer of animation!

So, form or function?