I don’t like it either - at all… Too cluttered.
Philip
I don’t have any background on this, but it looks like a U/I “face lift”, by a Web page designer, that doesn’t actually use the tool in “the trenches” like we do.
@sam Help! We need to be able to turn this new version off…
Oh, by the way this seems like it’s bein smartphone driven to have a more vertical, scrollable layout… ugh.
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I liked the previous version more 
The Light (Compact) theme sorta works okay (or better at least) with this new feed layout (see this thread). But yeah, the (or, my) eyes are really drawn to the colored category boxes instead of the topic title headline. And the compact theme is arguably still a wee bit too compact and has odd white spacing 
Not a big fan of it either. It draws attention to things that aren’t that important.
That’s weird…I could swear it was always like this for me 
Do you guys mean Tags under posts? You did’t have them??
Yes, me too.
Well, maybe not always, but from quite some time …
I remember that I noticed how many Grasshopper posts appeared here when its Ning forum was closed.
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Ah OK, I must have forgot that … Thanks !
Looks like my attention to details is non existing today…
Selecting none used to mean none now you still get the main forum you’re in.
Stylebot does allow me to remove the category boxes so pretty much back to how it used to be 
but it messes up the forum selection dropdown 
Mark
There is a CSS customisation that can be applied to bring it back. Most communities prefer the change.
I just changed the style of the category to be “bullet” instead of “box”. I know this doesn’t look the same as it used to, but maybe this is a little less obtrusive.
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How many of those put up a fight about not wanting to move from an efficient easy to read news reader to an inefficient web forum?
I have figured out how to remove the whole box with the category and tag using stylebot so pretty much back to how it was.
Mark
Well, personally, I liked the category classification very much, it told me at a glance with its color coding which messages I wanted to read first and perhaps respond to and after going through those, decide which I would “mark as read”. Now I have to read all the titles closely, figure out if it’s, say, a Grasshopper question which I don’t want to answer, whether the person has an issue with Rhino for Mac or Windows, etc. The category info is almost as valuable as the title IMO.
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Agree
I guess you use the All Categories section so yes having the categories would be useful. I generally switch between the sections i’m interested in using the dropdown, never use the All Categories option.
Mark