yes this default format sucks thats true and no one who is intelligent can really deny that, its clunky, cluttered, offers options no one really wants etc, but the good thing about the new forum software is that it is highly customizable, after fukking around with some of the options (turn off sigs,turn off notifications for anytime someone responds to a subscribed thread) the new format becomes much easier to deal with and navigate through. but yeah the owners did fukk up by switching the software since the main reason was to attempt to stop the strain on the servers and since the upgrade the servers have been constantly slow or down.