The first time I seen this new layout, I would have sworn it was April fools day all over again! - a bad joke...
No warning that the site was going to change on the main screen... as it was not a small change but a very radical change... Some people that use webpages like user friendly pages, or ones that do not have you thinking "Is what I want under this catagory or that one???"
I know I've talked to a few people and I've YET to hear any of the people I know to say that they REALLY like this new format... (and most of the ones I talk to are 5+ year players of everquest, and most if not all know the old layout very decently, if not well)...
Remember Coca-Cola changing from original coke to new coke? and the uproar of people who was about to stop buying the product made them go to coke classic? as much as I'd be wanting to support something... sometimes money (like subscriptions all saying no) talks...
I can also remember when Caster's Realm went from their original page to that more modernized menuized page that had stuff all messed up and some missing... I used that page until the "Classic view" had dissappeared... as the classic format was what I had gotten familiar with...
but I do hope to see the original format on the allakhazam page... (note, I'm not acknowleging the page as "ZAM" page... I think of it as new coke example... after all these years, I'll still be calling it alla / allakhazam and no "ZAM EQ")...
hopefully we'll get to see the old Allakhazam page back... but until then, I guess it's time to get more bookmarks ready to go looking for information at... I still might use the page, but it's lost it's sense of style... and the functionality got condensed into:
HOME DATABASE WIKIBASE EQINTERFACE FORUMS ACCOUNT
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LOTS of links to various parts of the page, all crammed into 6 catagories... on the old page, with ALL those links listed, of the 6 above, which most was offered there with the rest of the links, I believe I only clicked HOME on any regular basis, and account when I needed to log in/adjust the account... the wikibase on rare occasion directly... I rather have seen the "Wikibase" then the "Underfoot walkthrough" "Underfoot armor sets" and the other parts listed under that without having to go "ok, click wiki, now lets click "Seeds of destruction"? "SoF armor guide"? Alas...
I also know some people will say it's most likely the same as talking to a brick wall to try to get the old format back... But, it's still worth being able to put in our feedback... As everything seems to have the cost going up these days, our feedback, should be worth something, if we're expected (hoped) to be supporting it...