No fence taken bro. So here is the deal... the foundation software that this forum is built by XenForo. I have not upgraded the software since I don't remember when, but it's been years. This was the second upgrade in the 9 years we've been online.
As an example look how many times Microsoft and Mac have come out with a new version. Needless to say this place was ready to make it run more efficiently and secure from AI bots as well as humans up to no good. My friend
@AndyB was invaluable in his work to get this site highly upgraded, wrote most of the custom Add-ons that make this site the coolest unknown music forum on the web.
So to make it look exactly like it did, I'm working on it. I was experimenting on the text colors today at work on my breaks. It's a work in progress and I'm an old stinker still working a 9-5... actually 6am to 2:30. Add 2 or 3 hours daily commute and I don't have a lot of time to tinker under the hood.
So will this site ever look just like the old site? I'm testing color combinations trying to find a font color that looks good in both dark and light backgrounds. I haven't the secret to having different font colors for each mode.