Well, George, general concensus seems to be:
1. Most of us don't want to be told thanks for posting, thanks for donating karma, thanks for sending a PM, etc., etc., etc.
2.
Everything seems to be running slower for at least some of us.
3.
A whole bunch of us don't like being redirected to the thing we just posted (although there seems to be a split on that).
4. This whole "Please be patient while we implement your search" (or whatever it says) and then its taking twice as long as it used to when you click on "Today's Posts" is for the birds.
5. Most of us could take or leave the abbreviation feature. Frankly I PM'd someone the other day and used the phrase "Take it
as I'm saying it ..." the PM they received said "Take it
anabolic androgenic steroids I'm saying it ..." which completely changes the content of the message, don't you think? (and no, the PM did not contain the typo
anabolic androgenic steroids versus
as, I went back and checked.
But mainly the board seems a LOT slower. Gotta tell you honestly, whoever sold you that it was an UPgrade, I think they were yanking your chain. I've always been under the impression upgrade meant improvement; this is not an improvement. It's more an EXTREMELY annoying add-on that makes me think of the commercials about Window's Vista, in fact, and you specifically said we wouldn't notice anything but "cleaner URLs" (whatever that means) and we're all definitely noticing stuff.
You did ask for input