Clearly, this is Mr. Robinson's site and he's the final arbiter. But these changes are making my surfing experience more difficult and slow. I am a fairly fast reader and information is no longer in an easily scanned format. Think about it. Books and newspapers follow very simple formats that haven't changed in a century (outside of color). Why? Because they worked at getting information to the customer.
I really see no real difference in the way the threads/posts are displayed for browsing through them... what do you mean exactly?
You can turn on/off the display of the "full post" or just the headline, so with only the headlines displayed, I see very little difference, functionally, from the old way. And yet when things are slow, you can view the whole text of replies in "latest posts" and find interesting conversations that are happening within threads.
As for the font size, you can control that in your browser (Or at least I can with IE 6)
This is the essence of my complaint. I skim and read VERY fast & find the OLD FR format to be a big advantage compared to a stack of newpapers. Hold the overhead down, and keep it lean and mean.