That jutst expands a couple of top level posts and lists the rest as individual links with avatars beside them (we don't need avatars beside each heading, just when the post is opened, as before).
It's not even close to having each and every post opened in a thread, with the ability to reply to and edit in the same view, not even on the same planet as the old print/preview option, which worked really well.

Did anyone actually look at what worked in the old site instead of just how to add a load of other junk that nobody seems to have wantedanyway ?

Seriously Jason, this scrolls and works like a torrent website (rlslog etc.). It is horrendously bad, terribly laid out, navigation is all but non existent compared to anything that has been done over the last 10 years, it's like Windows ME all over again, the whole thing's just a big, bad mistake. Too bad, what a total screw up by the development/design team.