Originally Posted by
Efrem
... And one specific comment that I didn't see above: the "Go to first new post" icon at the left of a thread title used to be a square that was large enough to click on. It's now a tiny triangle which is much harder to zero in on. It seems to accept clicks in a limited region around the triangle itself, but I'd like to see something larger - ideally the previous icon restored, but in any case something that one can realistically expect to hit with a mouse at least 80 percent of the time. Also: a downward-pointing triangle is understood throughout the computing world to mean an open list of some sort (such as a list of the files in a directory). When you click on it, what everyone expects to happen is that the list will close and the triangle will now point to the right. This is giving a standard symbol a totally different, and unexpected, use. That's another reason to change it.
Thanks for replacing this icon with something more reasonable. I still don't see the point of including a downward-pointing triangle in the new icon, since that design element has the generally accepted meaning given above, but it's not as blatant as it used to be and the icon overall is much easier to hit.
By the way, even those of us who have complaints about the new design and how it was introduced appreciate that people are here and are paying attention!