You may have noticed, there was a forum Beta going on for the last 4 weeks here at Gamespot. I was not a part of that Beta and I am glad too. The new forum layout, although easy on the eyes, is a complete failure compared to the previous one in my opinion. For me, the forums started to act extremely slow after the new layout was implemented. Posting a simple message is nerverackingly long, and that was on my new laptop which is very fast on all other websites and on the previous version of the forums. Also, this may be a small detail and you may accuse me of nitpicking, however it is very hard to see who created a thread. I keep thinking of the latest poster as the thread creator. And to add to the agony, the order of the buttons used to post has changed. Now, in place of the "Quick Reply" is the "Reply" button which makes it significantly longer to post. You may say "Change is nice" and that is perfectly fine; however, why fix something if it is not broken? These things make the overall quality of posting on the Gamespot forums annoying at best. They seem to have replaced ease of access and functionality for a nicer look.

I may be the only one facing the slow response problem but, for me at least, the new version of the forums is a big thumbs down :(

What are your thoughts?