I feel a bit like Rip Van Winkle as I have been away a couple of days and have come back to newly formatted boards.

Perhaps things took a few hours or a day or so to settle or get rid of glitches, but I am not finding the boards harder to navigate at all. They are just more spread out looking.

I am on a computer, if that makes a difference. I can access via a phone but find it a much more tedious process compared to a computer.

The major change is just not having the 'at a glance' capability to see most of the recent topics. I can only see a handful now and have to scroll, everything is just bigger, roomier I guess.

Maybe it is just me but there also seem to be dozens more newbies posting, maybe the boards are more visible?

The one thing I can't see any longer is how many posts any member has made on the forums. I suppose all that got deleted with the changeover but it isn't a feature on the new boards, by the looks of things.

I wonder if they introduced anything useful, eg a lock on threads over 12 months old, to make them read only.