DABOSS, funny that you said "after a couple of hours I am now liking it", given my latest reply to Murph in which I said:

Hi, Murph and thanks for your feedback. Once you use the site for a couple of hours, you'll see the changes are actually quite small but important from a user experience point of view.

It took me about 45 minutues to get used to the new layout during testing, then fell in love with it due to the new features making the experience so much better. Viewing threads is so important for those hot topics and the viewing the top posts speaks for itself.

Regards,
George