Congrats, you tried to copy twitter and reddit and failed terribly. The old layout was pretty much perfect and was actually good enough to keep me coming back despite you cranking out shit-tier games since Reach.
The new forum layout did to this website what Reach did to the Halo series, completely killed any long term fan-support you had. I mean, it wasn't even an innovative change, you just mashed a bunch of popular features from other websites together.
Whoever thought this was a good idea should probably kill themself.
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"cranking out shit-tier games since Reach." Did you forget that the only game that Bungie has released since Reach was, in fact, Reach? And the idea of mashing a bunch of popular features from other things is exactly what Combat Evolved did: the only real "innovation" was recharging health, although a minor argument could be made for only being able to have two weapons. Besides, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, and if it works (and given the popularity of the websites that Bungie borrowed elements from, it does) then it's clearly workable.