Personally I think the changes to editing posts were huge. 8 \ Equally huge, the changes to attachments, causing many people to have to use MediaFire and such for maps. Also, I will always feel the PM limit to have been completely unnecessary (the few people who "abused" it were not even a problem until all the data was converted to test the new forums, we could be forced to slash them again next time, in 2-3 years or whatever).
But it's hard to forgive Shrapnel for making us LOOK at this forum constantly, that's for sure.
They seem so nice, why would they do this to us?
Other than the Search function (which is better and worse, apparently), you don't seem to have a strong opinion on what you like better, it just sounds as if you are apathetic towards the change.
It's not that I don't like the new "features", but I'd give them up in a heartbeat to have the old forum back, or to have this one behave as the old one did (best of both worlds, server side functionality, and client side performance!).
