The new format is really very nice! Thank you for all of your hard work.
I liked seeing the number of posts. While I recognize that quality is more important than quantity, the number of posts provides very useful background information to me. Someone asks a question. My answer may be different if I see they have made 2,000 posts versus 20. It's sort of a "know your audience" thing. If there are conflicting answers in a thread, I MAY add more weight to the opinion of someone who has posted a few hundred times versus a few times. I know I can look it up, and I am familiar with the names if many members, but for those I don't know, number of posts is a helpful differentiator, to me.
Also, what defines the "new member" designation? Is it number of posts, length of time as a member, or something else?
I miss the section that showed the newly started threads in order by day. I don't read every thread. The old way, I could be sure I had seen all the threads. Now, there doesn't seem to be any order. I often see the same discussion listed twice.