I miss the VGFOTDs. They were funny. I kind of looked forward to them. I do not however, care for the twitter tags all over the right side of the front page. I mean no offense (really I don't), but that just looks tacky and makes the site seem like it is set up to get hits from search engines based on those tags. Hash tags are gaudy and sooooo IRC (like IRC from fifteen years ago).
Not that I care much for twitter anyway...its format is the bane of anybody that learned how to write/type actual English instead of the blasted AOLspeak seen everywhere today (including among other places, corporate memo boards
in handwriting).
I sort of like the media of the day though - got a kick out of seeing somebody play nearly identically to how I used to play Contra for the NES (I mastered that game in single life runs using any weapon (and only that weapon) I chose for that run. Laser was still the most OPd if you knew how to use it right. Machine gun....not so much thanks to the 6502's legendary inability to handle more than a set number of sprites on the real hardware (yay NEStopia!).
TL;DR version: New look took a while to sink in. I mostly like it. Miss VGFOTD, like MOTD, tags look awful.
Edit: Why does text typed into the text fields appear black on white, but the finalized forum text appear grey? Harder to read that way..very headache inducing having to squint at my TV (32" two feet in front of me at 1600x900) to read the forum text. Grey on white hurt eyes.