1) The new layout is very white. It is very hard to see the separation between different posts.
2) The new layout doesn't color-code code blocks anymore.
3) The link "Tips for Posting Messages" do show code as color-coded. It also fails to make use of for the example code that is then shown formatted - so the input data doesn't have indented text, but after add of the "pre" tags, indents magically appears.
4) Why does every new post ask for the users name? To make sure that even more people will make lots of posts using faked names - sometimes even switching between two names and one-man Q/A sessions.
5) This forum really do need real, registered, accounts. Where the posters name gets permanently locked, making sure that however many aliases someone creates they are still unable to impersonate someone else. The ability to impersonate or use whatever random aliases is creating lots of extra rude posts.
Hi guys,
There is more to come, i.e. this is not a mere restyling exercise - the restyling also involved the consolidation of various different backend templating systems etc which was necessary before we can move forward with new functionality and further improvements to design/layout of important pages.
There are definite plans to move to a new, much more full-featured forum system in the not too distant future which will hopefully address many of the issues around missing/buggy functionality - proper registration, watched threads, etc.