[ArneFufkin]

I feel like protesting with a profane, personally directed, racist and violent post.

[Aeronaut]

This will CERTAINLY take some getting used to.

[Petronski]

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

Blech!

[Giddyupgo]

What a shock. Just made my coffee and woke up to this. I can't get the topics into the sidebar, even after reading the instructions. I feel I'm missing out on something. I want my old FR back!

[Sandy]

You have to make your own sidebars now. Personally, I never liked the sidebars anyway because they just took up space. I guess instead of having one extra column that was easy to get rid of, we now have two extra columns that we're stuck with.

[Happygal]

You shoulda been practicing with the Beta version all last week :-)

Personally, I think the changes are great.

Well done JohnRob! *S*

[BunnySlippers]

There was a time (not so long ago) that FR had NO sidebars at all. And I like the flag graphics. Bravo!

[leadpenny]

It's an early April Fool's joke, Right?

[primeval patriot]

Article fonts are too small.

[cva66snipe]

For those who use largest text font on your screens to read threads are you getting sea sick scrolling? If so then try adjusting your text size to medium or otherwise you will get the continious wave while scrolling.

[Hank Rearden]

For this FReeper in the boonies, who can only get 28k dialup at best, on a good day, this is NOT an improvement.

Slow to load and cluttered once loaded.

Maybe I'm being an old fart about this, but I was quite happy with the way it was two hours ago. It was MUCH faster to load, too; very important if you have limited bandwidth.

[BunnySlippers]

All of the printing (fonts) around the top and sides are outrageously small. I may need my magnifying glass pressed to the monitor. I like most of the changes BUT if I was totally new to the site it would be most confusing.

[ArneFufkin]

I don't know John ... remember when the McDonalds Trainees went from brown paper hats to blue paper hats? I think my point is clear.

[Hank Rearden]

If JimRob wants to do a "Question" in the sidebar, I have a suggestion:

"Do you like this better than the old FreeRepublic format? Yes or No."

I'll start . . . . . No.

[leadpenny]

I take back my #14 because I'm starting to find my way around already. (And I'm 'puter challenged)

[nopardons]

This STINKS ! It is virtually incompatable with WebTV, it hurts my eyes, it takes FOREVER to load, it looks dreadful, is NOT user friendly, and I HATE, LOATH, and ABOMINATE it.

Was there even a warning ? If so, I missed it.

This is what the begathons produced ? Did anyone even ever bother to ask if WE wanted / liked this set up ?

[Chief]

While I am a Conservative I do not resist change for the sake of improvement. This is NOT an improvement! I love my country's flag, but I do not need to have it take up a quarter of my screen.

I want my old FR back!

[zarf]

BOOOOO!!! Come on!!! This is slower than hell!!

The flag graphics are OK but the layout SUCKS!!!

Thanks for the effort guys but this off the mark.

[Artie_Kay]

Don't fix it if it ain't broken!

The new format is awful.

[Lion Den Dan]

Worse than awful