How does reducing font size save server burden? How does the useless left gutter save server burden? If I need to load a new page just to launch a search, haven't I increased server burden? How is it that the regional comment at the top of the page, or the user poll, aren't additional server burdens?
Never mind, it's none of your business. Everything John and Jim do is with the FR users in mind. EVERYTHING. It's simple ... nobody is forcing you to lay on a bed of nails, nobody is forcing you to stick a screw driver into your left eye, nobody is forcing you to be drawn and quartered, and nobody is forcing you to endure the Bataan Death March torture that is the new Free Republic. Log off, and don't come back.
Please.