“Obviously not. Web-based businesses tend to favour tasteful websites that load quickly, rather than a hopelessly confusing mashup of advertising, news content and advertising, more advertising, loads of adverts, advertising instead of links and so much embedded advertising that the page take ages to load.

I actually prefer the dead-tree version of the Chron these days. It doesn't force other people's products into my brain with quite the same ferocity.”

“Yes but you wouldn't get the interesting ramblings of we posters Moe. What on earth would we do without them???”

“I just want a site with NEWS which loads quickly without fuss, loads of unwanted advert pop-ups which seemed to appear if my mouse strays too far on the page.

New news, up-to-date news, easily-accessible news - NOT scrolling down page after page to find a topic buried under lots of non-stories and page-filling bumf.”

“Why has the red and green arrow system suddenly disappeared - presumably something to do with this fancy website? I agree with Mr_Nemo, I want a website which delivers NEWS without fuss and unwanted pop-ups otherwise I am wasting my time.”

“The red and green arrows weren't on the forum part of the website before. Have to be honest this new revamp seems to be very pretty (if that's your taste) but not any improvement in terms of functionality not least because the old default of active topics at the top doesn't work anymore.”

“@Dave_Weston
Set it to sort by 'most recently active' and save the result as a bookmark / favourite. The following link should work: http://tinyurl.com/au7bl48”

“Also, if it's available for your browser, use AdBlockPlus; it does what it says on the tin and leaves the web looking lovely again!”

“@VV, if we could have a proper user-oriented website like all the grown-up papers do, I reckon we'd have a lot more interesting ramblings. Some formatting would be nice maybe, or smileys. Or at least remove the automatic bloody quotes; I can punctuate myself thank you very much.

The absolute worst 'feature' is the rejection of hyperlinks in favour of ridiculous pop-up ads that have nothing whatsoever to do with content. Tim Berners-Lee would be spinning in his grave if he were dead. I bet he's spinning in his office as we speak.”

“sunny_bath, Thank you for Adblock.”

“Maybe the colours are to make up for a lack of content.”

“Oops. 'Forums' seems to have disappeared from the main menu bar. I trust this particular thread had nothing to do with this new development...”

“Moe, it's now called "community". I took ages to find the log in/out which is now top right.”

“Ah yes, thanks!”

“It's a little clumsy having the right hand icon obliterating part of the longer title lines.”

“Blow the fancy site, WHAT has this bunch done to the Announcements??? I could not access the obits yesterday OR today. I have contacted the relevant people but still no announcements are available - no problem with the Public Announcements but the others are just a blank screen. Someone from 'Iannounce' site stated that all problems had been addressed - does anyone in this outfit know how to run a website??”