For those of readers who like the new site, that is great news. For those who don't, I hope they'll give it some time. We spent a lot of time thinking about navigation, design and functionality and we think we've ended up with a site that is visually more appealing and easier to use.
We appreciate that many of you think the old site wasn't broken so why fix it. We got a lot of the same feedback when we switched from the first version of Stuff to a new look two years ago. There are 554 comments so far, 90% are negative, most users simply wanted the old layout back. I put users's 554 comments into Wordle generating this word clouds: