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The sidebar on the left is a complete waste of space, and the new layout of the headings is not as efficient.

Blech!

Agree about the left column. The American Flag graphic slows down scrolling significantly! The headline fonts are too small in relation to the paragraph of posting text beneath. The empty left hand "gutter" column distracts the eye from catching the headlines, forcing you to refocus on the successive headlines. Actually, not empty, the colors in the flag graphic overwhelm the eye/brain attention as you quickly try to scan down the now too small headlines.

I looked at the BETA, but had no idea that such a flawed implementation was so close to being used. It will probably cut down on my FR viewing since its getting too hard to SCAN for news in all of the new graphics clutter. Bye the way, I've got DSL and it still takes to long to load the latest posts, too much time spent painting the left gutter column American Flag.

My suggestion would be to kill the left gutter column and put any admin/control info to the right. If this keeps up soon the FR presentation (not content) won't be much better than UBB sites.

Been on for 15 minutes now and this sucks! The old format you could read the threads much easier and quicker.

Nothing ever seems to improve.