... If you could name the issues with the new forum, instead of simply asking that the old one be brought back. >_> The difference isn't a redesign so much as using a different system entirely.
I might add that Simon's spent like five months coding this stuff probably. The current forum uses an entirely different system, which is basically HTML.
This means that Simon can now add whatever he feels like to forum functionality without dealing with BBCode. It isn't going to just "go back" right after we finally meet up to forum standards. o_O