I don't think there is anything else I can really say about this. This isn't facebook. This isn't deviantart. This isn't the comments section of the Daily Mail Online. It's not even twitter. Hashtags? Really? There have been many great features applied here. The white background (seriously, its absence until now has been bizarre), ability to change name (why did it take so long to get that?) and automatically parsing urls (ditto to that one). Everything else I've seen so far? Not really. Nothing about the layout makes sense. Pinned threads in private groups are gone. I'm told private groups are no longer private. There's no real sorting of things. Replies to individual posts? What was wrong with quoting? Sorting the 'threads' by newest reply first? What is this? Standard forum layout is standard for a reason. It's a forum, for debate. However inane and pointless and childish the debate may actually turn out to be. Comment-based layout is for feedback and news 'discussion'. This is not a forum anymore. Can we at least have the option to remain on the old [i]forum[/i] layout? ADDED TO, moved to OP for improved clarity. After some determined attempts to make myself like the new layout I've noticed some other things. Not only have pinned threads been taken down, they seem to have been wiped entirely. In Sapphire, we have apparently lost our 'spam thread', our 'forum rules' and a history of the community, which chronicles upwards of four years of various parts of Bungie.net These haven't just been moved, they're gone. Forum navigation has gone backwards. You can't meaningfully cycle through. If I recall correctly, Sapphire had upwards of two and a half thousand pages of forum. To cycle through that now would require astronomically more time than before - partly because of the greatly increased page loading times, mostly because of the inability to progress more than one page at a time. Also the fact that, which I am remiss to note, there hasn't been a 'jump to page' or 'find by date' option added. The changing of urls. Really. I had dozens of individual threads from the forum bookmarked on my browser. None of their urls work anymore, nor do any of the urls for groups. So frankly, every last one of those threads are completely lost. I could go to [url=http://archive.org/web/web.php]Wayback Machine[/url] to go and find them, I guess, but seriously why should I? There's no guarantee that any are even archived. There is no immediately apparent way of accessing the old 'saved threads' function, so even if I'd done that, I wouldn't be able to find them that way either. It also bizarrely tells us our posts have been liked, yet does not seem to display anywhere how many times it has been liked except for in the notifications feed. Possibly one of maybe three good things that have come out of this update.