This new look to the eBay Community Forums is complete and utter rubbish, to put it mildly.  I hate it so much I'm actively boycotting it - I used to be a regular poster on the forums before eBay ruined it with this new "improved" layout, but ever since these latest changes I really couldn't care less if the eBay Community Forums died a slow death and eBay decided to delete the eBay Community Forums from the site in its entirety.  This new version of the forums is not a patch on the original - therefore, if eBay won't give us the old format back again I reckon they should just kill it off for good and remove it from the site altogether.