I know some people are suggesting a beta site but I think this entire community would be willing to be the beta testers as long as they know it’s happening.
One option is make some changes (let people know when it is happening!) and have a banner on the homepage with a link to a thread specifically made for the changes. Basically what happened last time just, y’know, official this time.
on flickr, design changes were better accepted once developers started to offer opt-in/opt-out options.
Basically, visitors would get redirected to the new site design, but there was a very visible link to immediately revert to the old design.
With this method, developers would get some feedbacks to refine the new designs, and slowly expose more visitors to the new changes.
It’s been days but still not a fan of the new logo. 
The color change made it more bearable, but I still don’t really like it either… another easy way to improve the design would be putting the logo centered, as shown in some screenshots in posts above. The logo itself… I’m not sure… I think it’s the font and size of the text more than the stylized crabigator for me… - that and I still think a logo in Japanese style would look better (ukiyo-e for example).
Haha agreed.
What does this even mean? Be less judgemental on the color? The fact that you have nothing in queue?
Constantly changing the color when you have more reviews (e.g. grey to green to yellow to orange to red) is like screaming in the user’s face "you haven’t done your reviews!!! 
). The rest of his statement was just a joke…
I don’t recall that happening but…you do have more reviews. Who would be offended by that? That’s the point of coming here. what kind of handholding type of… redacted
There were people who didn’t like it. At the very least, I can see people not wanting WK to decide for them what is a “too high” amount to have in the queue. Maybe 150 reviews for me is no big deal, but 50 reviews for a new user feels like a mountain.
smh. It sounds to me like those people need a Picard. It sounds like a solution in search of a real problem. Yes I’m judging.
To be fair, I don’t get any of the hubbub over site redesigns, but people lose their minds.
I get a lot of it, unnecessary changes. Like much of tech it seems like changes to justify someone’s job.
I don’t think anyone was offended. Rather, it puts added pressure on people for no reason. What’s the value in the site screaming in your face when you haven’t done your reviews?
Speaking of problems that need solutions, stop shaking your head and get yourself back to the crossword-solving thread. 
i don’t think the website should change because some people feel pressured by a colour.
I don’t see the harm in people expressing how they feel about a completely unannounced change to the UI that isn’t just cosmetic. It’s not merely a change to the color scheme, but a change to how the UI element is meant to be interpreted.
Of course people should be free to express what they think (as we are doing), and the website should be free to dismiss some of these thoughts (and some of us should be free to say the website should).
I don’t see why they felt the need to make non-cosmetic changes without talking to the community first, but they seem to have realized that wasn’t the right way to handle it.
I’m not against the idea of a blog post or some beta test website, I am just saying that changing colour scheme because people feel ‘pressured’ is imho non required.
