Alex -- I'm not going to lie. I'm not a fan of the changes. Too much all at once, and there have been too many disruptions in format and existing links, etc. I'm sorry to be a traitor to my fellow DIS mods and all the Webmasters. I care less about visual appeal than I do functionality and practicality -- and a lot of links and assorted things have gone awry. Whether anyone thought the previous layout looked dated or not, it was still fairly warm and inviting. This new look is a bit more... um... 'hospital waiting room'-esque?
Clicking on links in a thread now means that the new page opens up on the existing open screen, instead of opening in a separate window/tab as it used to. That means more steps are required for opening up a separate tab and going back and forth between windows/tabs when I have to cross-reference something.
Many of the well-earned tags from the Tag Fairy disappeared. Mine was one of them -- there were only two or three words of it left and I just took them out.
One of the participants in one of my Superthreads just mentioned that a lot of the links he included in his Trip Reports -- links to other posts within his TRs, implemented to help people find things more easily in his threads -- have gone missing or been broken. I have also noticed that a lot of the link titles and text I included in my Superthreads for reference have been messed up (weird codes and symbols have appeared).
I can't figure out where certain features are located -- both to manage the threads I have created and to moderate. I can't figure out what happened to a specific private messages folder I had created.