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I've been using both the Beta and the old version for about a week now. At first i liked the Beta version - it was something new to play with and i liked the feature of adding different forums to the sidebar. But then i started to realize that it was taking me a lot longer to surf through the Beta version and to find articles that interested me. So eventually i found myself migrating back to the old version for less stressful surfing.

What i dislike about the New FR up to this point: 1) doesn't have the convenient search at the top of the page; 2) the sidebar forums keep changing position..for instance, i'd rather Breaking News stay at the top; 3) the polls are okay, but usually are just a distraction and means more clicking and more frustration as you have to scroll down to see the sidebar listings; 4) in short, the layout seems too busy and you often have to pause to try and figure out what part of FR you're looking at and what you need to click on next in order to get where you want to go

Hopefully things will be fine-tuned a bit over the coming days and weeks. For example, would like to see an option to be able to start off by viewing all postings from all forums or else postings from a particular forum of your own choosing. And would like to be able to use the search to search through all forums at once, not just one at a time.