Arr, Me no like change.
I enjoyed the old layout a lot more but I guess can live with a new one, with some tweaks.
Font sizes need to be adjusted across the board. There's too much stuff to list, really. But mostly I feel like you guys designed certain parts to be easily viewable on those extra tiny screens of phones or tablets, but for those of us using normal full sized monitors certain parts just look unnecessarily HUGE. I like large screens because I can usually cram more information into them and not because they make the same small amount of information look bigger...I dont want to see what is a literally 1" tall text (for example, "Reply to Topic" above me now).
In the article section, please, oh please get rid of the left hand panel. All this social media crap...All it does is narrow down the IMPORTANT part of the page, I.e. the text. Did you know that on a widescreen monitor the top of the article only takes up half of the screen space? HALF. The other area is wasted as far as I'm concerned. Again, maybe that works for smaller screens but its just inefficient design in my book.
Right side panels and links are generally more useful but I'd also narrow them a little more. Mostly because they are useful once per day when at most, when you first come to the site, and then its jsut the same information over and over...taking up useful space.
I still havent gotten a feel on the drop down menus. Will try using them throughout the day and see how that goes.