I remember when i first complained about it the most common response was "OMG LOL IT"S SO NEW WAIT IT'S STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION".

Well, now, some time has passed, and it's still this messy, clunky, slow, 1999 throwback. Does anyone seriously prefer this over the old design? Direct comparison time!

Look at that. Everything fits together, the design is simple but elegant. Navigation was simple and easy, website was fast. It didn't have the fancy features of this one (rich-text post mode, which is mostly useless, shoutbox integrated with the forum, which is mostly useless, blog space, which is nice, and a birthday tab awwwwwww, yeah...), but would it be really that hard to integrate these things into the old design?

Now this site:

Ugh. It's not hideous, but it looks like something that came pre-packaged with the forum space. There are some things that really annoy me, like that you cannot search by posts, that sig doesn't appear in some sub-forums, the new emoticons that look fugly. I still can't fathom why in the world would this change in design be made.

I MISS THE OLD FORUM BROS ;_;