@Peter There are also severe layout problems, like this: meta.stackexchange.com/a/372605/196432

@Peter By the way, the new profile layout looks like a junkyard, and as usual they claim it is "after receiving and incorporating feedback the community [sic]" but no it isn't.

I predict that meta post will score −100 soon.

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Before they made the change, I would never have imagined such horrifying waste of space.

I think , I was still too polite. The new layout is catastrophical , not just bad.

Agreed.

@Peter I think the worst is the answers tab, but I don't know how many people think the same.

@Peter Let us not catastrophize. The changes are, I think, bad, and there are a lot of things to be genuinely upset about, but there is also a lot of "who moved my cheese" complaining going on.

@user21820 That is a particular sore point for me.

And there is so much gd whitepace.

:(

@XanderHenderson "gd" usually stands for "good".

@user21820 No, it does not.

It stands for god damn.

@XanderHenderson Gd luck trying to convince me.

@user21820 Maybe the purpose was to allow to have a look at at the answer without clicking on it.

@Peter Even if one wants to do that, all one needs is 1 line, not 10 lines of wasted space.

Exactly.

@user21820 In spoken language, uptight Christians often us "gd" instead of "god damn" or "god damned". This has been the case for at least a hundred years. I have never seen "gd" used to mean "good". :/

@XanderHenderson I think it's legitimate to complain BIG if the change was supposed to be for mobile readers but was forced down the throats of every wide desktop screen user.

@user21820 I want one of those little rotating triangle things that I can click to see the answer.

@XanderHenderson That also works.

I am willing to grant that the site needed updates to make it more mobile friendly (I don't use mobile, but my understanding is that the mobile site has been broken for ages). So, I am all for responsive design. But there are a lot of design decision which have been made which seem to go beyond making the site more mobile friendly. I am not a fan of most of those.

@XanderHenderson That's interesting. I've rarely seen "gd" for the swearing, but I don't understand how "uptight Christians" would distinguish words that are supposed to mean the same thing. I mean, supposing everyone around you knew that "gd" meant "god-damned", and you use it, then you are using "god-damned" as well. But if my comment is unsuitable for "uptight Christians", then they can ignore it. =P

@user21820 "gd" for "good" is exaggerating the laziness in a chat. I am anyway no friend of such abbreviations , except from some often occuring long phrases.

@Peter I don't use abbreviations for simple words, but I've seen "gd" used for "good" many times. Obviously, not the same sample as Xander's.

@XanderHenderson Luckily there is such a thing as GM, by which I can actually make that happen even if SE developers don't.

@XanderHenderson Perhaps we should say: "so much f***ing white space". I will never accept gd as good!

:(

Temporary solution to reduce whitespace : Run $(".s-post-summary").css("padding", "3px"); in your browser's JS console.

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@user21820 I definitely think that's the worst part... I might have silently endured all the other changes, but this one made me actually go on Meta.SE to leave comments.

Also I noticed that the user who made the meta post is not the UI team lead, who made the announcements for a few recent stink bomb changes.

I wonder if the other guy is just tired of dealing with people yelling at him, or maybe the team decided they'll offer up a fresh face along with a video preview to sweeten the deal a little.

Whatever the strategy was, judging by the votes on the announcement post, it didn't work...

@ElliotYu I would really not read too much into that, particularly considering that the announcement of the change was edited into a preview which was posted a month ago.

It was simply someone else's job to post the preview and final announcement.