The way that if you click on a link that someone has put in their post, it doesn’t open a new window/tab, but opens it in your existing window/tab… I am always clicking on a link, then closing it and realising that I no longer have an Exiges.com window/tab.
(perhaps hate is a strong word, but you know what I mean)
you using a Mac?
If so, cmd click links for them to open in a new window 
it is annoying, I just right click and open in new tab
I just did that 
Ex77
The most annoying part for me is that unless you read every single thread, the index still shows that you have unread posts 
At least with the old format once you visited a section & came out of it, it showed you had read everything there, whether you had or not…much easier for me 
Forum use seems to be in sharp decline imo. .
The quietest section seems to be the Series 1 section, maybe they have all got lost, or broken down?
Yea, but every other forum I use opens a new tab/window when you click, so I have to keep remembering to do it on here… would be a lot easier if the forum configuration just made it so…
What you doing in there anyway?! 
It used to work like that.
I still love Exiges though, I kinda panic when it appears to be down.
Yup you gotta love exiges, I’ll always check in when I have a spare minute or two.
It’s always peaks and troughs of activity,…always has been.
Nah, they’re just fed up with all the moaning from S2/S3 owners. 
For me its the new format - it shows less preview/no first lines of topic post in the ‘sections’
so needs more clicks to get in to find out what’s posted.
Visiting much less due to this
Plus the smiles aren’t as good as the old ones 
Can I put in a plea for a more positive tone in the feedback? I am sure David would like the forum to be an ever improving pleasant ‘corner of the pub’ (as I seem to recall him phrasing it in the past) but we have no right to it and I really enjoy it so wouldn’t want that gratitude (which I know also exists in others) to get lost however valid the input.
Ian
why? nowt wrong with an honest opinion.
the exige community is great, however the recent forum changes are something of a backward step imho.
Why? Because there’s a difference between honest feedback and moaning and I think the former is more effective than the latter and tends to have more of an effect (especially when it’s somebody else’s software, hosting, URL, time, etc). But now I’m moaning about moaning! Don’t get me wrong, I don’t consider David sensitive but I’d rather he wasn’t needlessly pissed off.
Do I think the new forum layout has been a success? Not really. Would I have seen a new forum engine and fancied trying it out? Yeah probably. Would I implement suggested changes from the community? Yes, when I had the time. Would I make the time if I was mildly aggravated by the feedback? Eventually.
Just my tuppence. This is the Internet so I’m comfortable for my opinion to be dismissed as a soft southern hippy throw back.
Ultimately Exiges rocks, end of.
Regardless of format. It’s the communities awesome mentality. 
bleedin’ hippy
I really quite like it
Smilies especially as there is now more scope for expression, I felt in the last version they were a bit limited. As for visiting less or the fact it seems quiet, the four sites I visit are all generally the same with regular posters making up the bulk of the posts, unless it’s technical.
It’s all good 
Because that’s always been a problems of yours! You’ve even tried to turn your engine in to an expression of your personality!!! 
you speak in riddles 