I hate to say this, but the new forum design is making me visit the forum less.
The borders hurt my eyes (it's not quite as bad on my home computer because they're narrower there -- not sure if this is because I'm on Firefox there, or because of the screen resolution settings). And the brown-on-black color scheme for the listing of thread topics makes them hard to read.
I am glad there's now a search function and all, but couldn't the design/layout be stripped down a bit to make it more user-friendly?
On the plus side, I am pleased to see that the "today's set times" box has been added back to the main site -- that's a very handy feature.