[Sabertooth]

Before, when clicking on latest posts, I could immediately see the titles of at least 50 posts, and a good proportion of them were visible on the screen. Now I can see but the first two or three posts in narrow column down the center of the screen. And the thing took forever to load. Not a good thing.

This is very, very true.

And what happened to "Find in Forum?"

On the bright side, I had 11,943 comments to view when I logged on this morning, and I can change my oil while new-style pages are loading.

[Tancredo Fan]

Did Vicente Fox become the site operator last night?

[cornelis]

What! No poem? We could use some satire, unless this beta thing is all part of a good friday drama of dying before FR's resurrection.

[EdReform]

Find in forum

[aruanan]

Right about changing the oil. In the time it took the posts to load, I could already have scanned through all of the first fifty on the old format. Since only WORDS convey useful information in the most direct way (notwithstanding a picture being worth a thousand of them), anything that cuts down on being able to get to the most words in the least possible time--no matter how pretty it may have been hoped to look--is a failure. Form, content, and purpose. If the purpose of FR is to give people a quick, easy way of accessing lots of useful news items and comments upon them, then both the form and the content should be tailored toward that end. The content is the posts and their titles. So it appears that form has gotten entirely in the way and vitiated the purpose by impairing access to the content. Let's not sacrifice substance to form.

[sweetliberty]

" I had 11,943 comments to view when I logged on this morning"

Wow ST...you are REALLY popular! I only had 4,564! And I was also trying to see the loading time as a plus. I could take a shower, get groceries, cook supper, watch the news....any number of things between pages.