I don't see anything so different about navigating it, but I am just naturally opposed to change. I'm sure Brent had his reasons though and since it's his forum, he can do as he pleases. The light slate blue background works well for me and like Brent said, when you log on, just click Today's Posts and there you have the same thing that we are used to seeing. I wondered also, where the smilies went, then Uncle Bob said to click advanced instead of quick reply. That doesn't work for me though. When I put the cursor blinky at the end of the last sentence, for instance, then click the smilie I want, the smilie gets deposited at the very first of the message, before the first word.

Oh yeah, I mentioned this earlier, it is aggravating that when you click to post, the whole page jumps to the right about an inch and a half, so that you have to adjust the slider at the bottom of the page to get the page back to the left where it is supposed to be.