It's quite appalling. At least there's /classic and you can ignore the side bar, but lets count the ways this fails:
- It took me a full minute to realize I had to scroll the right side bar to see more content
- Reimplemented scrolling on the right side bar, sluggish with a mouse
- Hover tooltips that stick around when scrolling the right side bar, impossible to see what's there.
- Clicking on the right side bar requires that you wait a minimum of 5 seconds for the "content" to show up in the left main pane
- 50% of the time for me, the content never actually shows up.
- The system now hides more comments than ever
In short, it's horrible. I loved the simplistic old look, could see at a glance what stories I want to read and which ones I didn't. I can't do that anymore.
So a layout update that was supposed to make the site faster and easier to navigate made it slower, harder to navigate, and sometimes flat out broken. Great job.
Edit: The real WTF is this forum software. How the hell do I get bullet points showing up properly???