The site looks different this morning. Is it just my machine, or has Fodor's moved to the new platform they have been talking about? You know, the one that will block those @$#%@"@ annoying Korean spam posts.

What looks different to you? Looks the same on my mobile.

No they say sometime early next year. I lament the change - it will be much more dramatic than this form - there was a post from Fodor's about this not long ago.

http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...omment-9808377

talks about the new forum look and when.

The font has definitely changed for me. Perhaps that's what you're noticing?

The ad placement is different.

Definitely not the new platform, which will be the same as flyertalk...

Definitely seems to be a new font. Not a good thing, it's smaller and harder to read on my desktop.

Yes, the fonts have changed on the desktop version of Fodor's - at least in Google Chrome. Probably just a few CSS tweaks (CSS controls the basic appearance of the web pages - font sizes, spacing, colors, etc.) Certainly not the big move to a completely new platform - that would be far more disruptive.

Can't say that I noticed a diff. (MacBook Pro / Safari).

Glad to find out it is a new font - I thought my eyesight was failing!!!

Stu Dudley

Yep, it is the font that has changed on my PC, using Chrome. More difficult to read for my aging eyes.

The assumption I made about the new platform was unfounded, as I'm looking at a whole row of the @#$%%@ Korean spam posts right now!

I so longed for the old format I went out and had kimchi and Korean BBQ.

Is anyone else getting "Connection is not secure?"

no (to connection not secure).

I guess the font is different, I wouldn't have been able to put my finger on that if someone hadn't mentioned it. Otherwise, looks the same to me. I don't pay any attention to the ads anyway (and don't really understand why people care about them so much and install adblockers -- so what, don't look at them, they pay the bills), so have no idea if the placement is different or not. But since there is generally a smallish banner ad at top and bottom and something on the side, it can't be that different and the ad positioning looks the same to me as far as I notice.

It is called hold down the Control key and hit the + sign. Even I know this one. You "techies" need to drink more coffee or something.

Font is different on Firefox too, I noticed it yesterday. I don't know about ads since I have adblock+ I just hope their updating is a sign they will keep this clean simple format and not make it flyer talk format.

Christina: <i>I don't pay any attention to the ads anyway (and don't really understand why people care about them so much and install adblockers -- so what, don't look at them, they pay the bills), so have no idea if the placement is different or not.</i>

Well - maybe you'd "understand" it if you had a small, light laptop that uses a lot more battery and/or slows way down when it has to display all of those CPU-intensive ads. I'd prefer my battery last longer and my laptop not slow to a craw because the page is so full of ads. Desktop users or people with very fast laptops probably wouldn't notice so much. (Any ad with video or animation is still probably using flash, which is CPU intensive; "plain text ads" don't slow the computer down though, but they tend to be less profitable to websites.)