2 points for Betty!
Things I like:
- More elegant, simplified color scheme. The old one, while functional, looked like it stumbled through a freshly painted 70s-era living room.
- Kept most of the old features and added more new ones...without cluttering the interface. With tweaking, i'm sure 'First Unread Post' button beside the thread title will actually take you to the post rather than the page (basically, it now takes 2 clicks to do something normally done with one, no huge deal). Other than that one thing, I dont think we've 'lost' anything. A rarity in upgrades this long in coming.
- Improved flexibility in the reply interface.
- Current with forum technology, so newcomers won't be put off by archaic systems
Almost forgot:
I LOVE that the "Thread Author" is no longer immediately under the "Go to first unread post" button. Cant tell you how many times I've accidentally clicked the person's name and ended up at their profile instead of their thread.