What is WITH the new layout?

[alex-axle.livejournal.com]

The font on the new layout is so bright that it actually hurts my eyes and is pretty hard to read. The worst is in the login area. It's like they looked at the old layout and scoffed, "Man, that is far too usable! Who would want a font color that contrasts with their screen enough to make out clearly? No, man, I'm telling you, having a pale as possible font color is the way to go. Also, make the font itself as ugly as possible. Come on guys, get with the program, no one wants a user-friendly scheme!"

As an added bonus, everything takes twice as long to load as it used to, and when I'm in the login area and I press one of the buttons on the sidebar (say "Community") it sends me back to the top of the page. And the arrows to sort things on the stats pages are disabled, and trying to view stats pages that aren't legacy stats makes Firefox lag like hell.

Some "improvement".