@Zero, if you don't like the default theme you can pick from a few others that are available in the lower left of the forums. If your just unhappy then give something of value in terms of feedback as to what drives you nuts.
You need only compare this forum layout to the previous one to get a visual explanation as to why it feels the way it is to me. But if you want my most major peeves about this forum, which I doubt you'll be able to change in this layout, here they are:
- Subforum links are too close together. It's hard to distinguish sub-forums when they're laid out like a college student's class notes. The previous forums spaced them apart nicer.
- Quotes suffer from the same problem in addition to looking like unnecessary buttons. The previous layout had better spacing and the quotes look like they were part of a post instead of sticking out. (Even colored, the old quotes didn't stick out too much because of the light coloration. In fact, the coloration made them easier to distinguish than the current grey quotes. This is especially true of nested quotes, as you can see in my signature.)
- Profiles had a much better layout in the old forums with comments and statuses being on the first page and community stats on the left side under the avatar. I and other people have a lot of information shoved into the About Me section so the old layout is more beneficial because it showed that on another page. (The old profiles also showed my image banners.) I also like the comment feature on the old layout, which allowed people to leave hellos without having to respond to my status updates or resort to filling up my PM inbox.
Now if you can post what you mods didn't like about the old forums, that would allow us to see things from your perspective. Because I thought the old forums were great up until that first DDOS attack which screwed up RO's Community Chat, causing it to load much slower than any other part of the forums. If you changed it for security issues, this doesn't feel like a step up.