navigation and appearence help???

First of all, Grovit!  yi52229f20 Stop freaking out!  7/6It's safe here.

Yes you can change your colors so that it's not hard on the eyes. Still not sure how though as I'm OK with the standard colors, but there is a thread on how to do such.

And you just go to the Participated button (above announcements). 

I'm still getting used to the format myself, since I am no social media butterfly. But I'm learning. Patience is all that's required.

Grovit, Doug,

Another way to find where you've been lately is in your profile. Go there, and on the bottom left of your profile box you'll see "View this poster's recent threads," and "View this poster's recent posts." Those will do much the same thing for you as the participated button.

The three skins which look the same are interesting, one (Basic) is the default theme. Another (Test) is one we've been experimenting with. AiRen's Theme is the Basic theme, but with slightly darker text which he specifically requested.

We can go a few different ways for you. You may rummage around the themes to choose from in the "settings" section of your profile. If you find the perfect one, then select it, and off you go.

If one is close, but not quite right, we can make some alterations to fit you. Again, no problem at all.

If none of the choices are even close, we'll find a different theme for you, after you tell us things like whether you want a dark or light theme, what colors you'd like, etc.

But here's where the problem comes in. Smileys. For your scheme to see other's, and for them to see yours, there is a fair amount of behind the scenes time required. We'll do it, but it won't happen right away. But we each serve each other, and it will happen. (Try to find a different solution, if you can.)