From the off-set I had this 'feeling' (akin to Gibbs's gut), that this new design was going to be 'the' design, albeit in two variations - horizontal and vertical. However, given the amount of people who'd said 'they'd just go on using their current one', I thought maybe I was wrong.
A few days ago LJ were asking people to suggest names for this new scheme (I don't think they'll be going with some of the suggestions), and I decided it might be a good place to try to ascertain whether they would still be around. Thus, I asked
The first time I asked, he didn't answer; he answered other bits of my post, but not that part. So I asked again. This was his response:
Regarding the existing site schemes -- I'm not 100% sure, but I think they're going to continue to be around. (I'm always hesitant to respond to these sorts of questions because I don't have a definite answer, so if I say what I think is going to happen, it's going to get quoted from here to Kansas and back if we end up doing something different. :P )
So it is not definite that the existing schemes will still be around in their existing format. And once again my feeling is that they won't be; that the new beta scheme will indeed become 'the' site scheme, albeit with the choices of horizontal and vertical, and that XColibur and Dystopia will no longer be around.
Maybe I'm just being cynical (see,
Anyway, I thought that some of you might be interested in this ramble.