Agreed with the OP, I really dislike the new layout and I absolutely cannot see how it was needed or an improvement in any way, some reasons being (copied from another post I made because I am lazy)
- I don't like the poster name being in a separate box from the avatar, it was momentarily confusing and now I simply find that it doesn't look as good.
- Ditto for moving the quote/reply/edit buttons to the top of the post, they were very noticeable and clear where they were, why move them?
- Biggest nip-pick of the bunch, but I just think avatars now look slightly off, not sure if its because they are larger, or because there is more empty space around them.
- in fact I just think the big-ass shiny grey bar is generally ugly the old layout felt much smaller and more sleek, the new one seems to be made to make everything unnecessarily large like whoever designed it had poor eyesight.
Also gotta love the Escapist suspending the OP for speaking his mind.
EDIT: thought of another
- why is Report" now "flag"? afraid that report sounds to hostile or something? its not really a huge issue, but I took me a second to find it and its yet another thing that didn't need to be changed.