If I may be so bold, I suggest we thank Mike and Spark for their dedication and hard work to continually improve the forums for us. Then give the new format a few days to sink in, and politely post any feedback to the Suggestion Box forum, where it belongs. I can imagine few things more discouraging than working my ass off to improve things, then signing on the next day to read threads in the wrong forum about how the changes "suck".
Joe