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In their defense the technical implementation of the new forum is short from amazing. It just feels like they had fancy stuff as a priority and usability second.
I think long-term, this will prove to be an advantage in terms of created revenue. Fancy stuff attracts users more than stuff that is slightly more practical, but way less shiny. Most users never get into the forums anyways, so it is merely incidental to their main reason of being on the website (playing the game, looking at their profile etc.). The usability won't be of much importance to them, which means that appearance weighs more than usability from their perspective - and when these sort of people turn out to be the majority, also from peppys perspective.
I can't blame him.
It could turn out to be a decent trade-off for peppu. The general feedback in the main forums official thread wasn't all that negative either.