I know you put an awful lot of work into this, but I gotta say it because it’s driving me crazy:
I think the other look was classier. This one is just okay.
And now for the real problems:
I HATE having to rechoose Comments every time I go into another forum. Having chosen Comments or Articles and having it default that way no matter what forum you chose was terrific.
The search: Now the search is worse, more complicated, limited. It was so easy, effortless, and user-friendly before with the drop down. Where’s the search by poster or keyword? And I have to clear out the “posts:news-forum” text every time I want to search? Ugh.
And the screen isn’t rendering well in Opera: I’m missing “Home” and “Forum” across the top because those links are squished to the left under “Free Republic”.
Forcing users to have to click extra times, taking away features that they need, making things more inconvenient, etc. is really annoying. Plus — am I going to be forced to change browsers? (Opera allows you to continue to browse on any page(s) where you were the last time you launched it — even if you were in the middle of a page. I absolutely don’t want to lose that since there are threads that I don’t get to finish reading and want to continue from where I left off the next time I log on to FR. But if it’s not rendering correctly...)
Thanks for all of the work you’ve been putting into it, but I feel like an old, best friend has been taken away.
Oh, and one last thing (as if the other stuff wasn’t enough — sorry!):
Not having the article open up in a new window when clicking on something in Breaking News is driving me insane. I keep x-ing out of it like I used to, losing FR entirely, having to relaunch FR, and screwing up the order of the window tabs inside of the browser. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks again for working to improve FR, but I’m going to end up in the nuthouse.