With the new redesign comes a lot of backlash and criticism, some warranted and some not.
I wanted to make a forum post of things we as a community like about the new site and what we appreciate. Seems like appreciation is buried in the many bug reports and design changes people are putting forward so I wanted to shine light on what we do like and maybe shed some light on this whole fiasco.

I'll go first:
I really like the two favorite button system in place. For so many years I would either misclick or fat finger around the favorite button and resize the image instead which was REALLY frustrating.
I also like how what is being blacklisted is shown. Too many times in the past I find an image I don't find a reason to be on my blacklist and I'd have to research the tags and my blacklist and figure out why that image was blacklisted.

Thanks!

I like the tags layout when editing tags. It sorts them into a few lines based on tag type, still in the same one box though; so it's just convenience all around.

I like the new upload page. It helps me to remember to include tags that can be easy to forget or overlook.

A and D to cycle through posts is nice. Searching more than 6 tags is surprisingly useful on occasion. The new way of creating Notes (click Add Note, click for one corner, drag to the opposite corner, and release) is a nice touch, especially compared to the old way which spawned notes in random-ass places sometimes not even on the picture.

once they get the 'Related Tags' panel working properly it will be extraordinarily useful (as it already is on danbooru).
autocomplete seems to be functioning well.

I can actually use my favorites like a favorites now that e621 has privacy mode. If only they would allow me to hide uploads as well.

What I like: I can now search two fav: tags together

Things I don't like: fav mode changes from green to ugly yellow; scaling options are kind of bad it's essentially tiny or max size; favorites cap which may require me to make a 2nd account;
and the ammount of work required to upvote, fav, and then go to the next page in a pool, they're in 3 separate locations and the mouse moves all over the screen to reach them, unlike before where it was a quick journey on the left side of the screen with minimal movement

lunacy said:
and the amount of work required to upvote, fav, and then go to the next page in a pool, they're in 3 separate locations and the mouse moves all over the screen to reach them, unlike before where it was a quick journey on the left side of the screen with minimal movement

well you can favourite by simply pressing the f key, and go to the next in the sequence by pressing d, if you have hotkeys enabled.
though now that you mention it there seem to be no hotkey for voting. might be worth raising that as an enhancement request; sounds valid to me, especially since even un-ranked users can vote here.

bitWolfy's CSS fixes are a straight out improvement on the original look of the site, and it's really nice that there's a feature for easily using them. I suppose it would have been even better if we'd had the good CSS on day one of the rebuild's release, but as far as I'm concerned, all that happened was that e621 looked good, and then a few days later it looked even better.

This thread has taught me a lot of new things about the site I didn't know about before!

lunacy said:
and the ammount of work required to upvote, fav, and then go to the next page in a pool, they're in 3 separate locations and the mouse moves all over the screen to reach them, unlike before where it was a quick journey on the left side of the screen with minimal movement

But it is still a quick journey except for the pool which takes up the entire top of the screen. The up vote and favorite buttons are still in their original places except now there's a bigger favorite button under the image if you want to use it.

Funny thing is that the layout is literally just color swapper placeholder from the underlying software layout, so it was technically never meant to be the same or even better from old themes.

watsit said:
I like the new upload page. It helps me to remember to include tags that can be easy to forget or overlook.

That was actually already on the old site, but it never went live. Also it is still missing some features that I would've loved to see to make something like pooling much more obvious and easier. Also stuff like using your previous post as parent post checkboxes and whatnot.
forum #256093

The purpose of e6 first and foremost is to serve as an archive. Changing the codebase to make it faster and more robust was a good move. I think the ability to search using 40 terms is a huge improvement.

I like that the uploader is no longer immediately shown on a post. Sometimes users had an unhealthy sense of ownership over their uploads.

The default blacklist is helpful for your average visitor, who doesn't want to see scat, and artists of contentious content, who don't like their posts getting heavily downvoted. It also means the mods can spend a lot less time telling people to start using their blacklist.

Well done mods. Especially you Kira.

Honestly I find the mobile design .. pretty decent. Not sure if others have less uptodate browsers or what, but on Android 8 / Chrome, most things look sensible and are not particularly hard to hit, browsing post/index/*, forums, or pools is a pretty smooth experience. Only complaint is that forum pages get a scrollbar that really takes a lot of scrolling to get to the end of the page, to the point I wonder if a smaller page size (# posts per page) for mobile would be good.

That said, I only tried it because I happened to be doing something else on my phone, I don't usually browse on my phone at all.

I appreciate larger sample images. I hope that all of the older post samples get scaled up at some point.

It really is noticeably faster. List pages load almost instantly now.

I'm greatly appreciative of the suggested tags to autocomplete, it was often a problem for me trying to figure out what nomenclature was used for a specific series or colloquialism.

Theme wise, it sucks ass. Thankfully bitwolfy fixed that, and I hope his work will eventually become officially implemented by the staff. The good new things though are the very nice tag autocompletion, which even shows tag aliases, the ability to add custom CSS bound to the account (though I still prefer using Stylus), and under the hood improvements like the ability to search 40 tags at once, being able to enter longer blip messages, etc.

randomguy85:
Thankfully bitwolfy fixed that, and I hope his work will eventually become officially implemented by the staff.

You are welcome.
See e926.net for a progress report on its integration into the main site.

bitwolfy said:
You are welcome.
See e926.net for a progress report on its integration into the main site.

Oh nice, the front page is gonna return too. It's good to know, thank you.

the updated CSS is looking pretty sweet

I wouldn't exactly say I appreciate the new design over the old one but so far the visual updates that have been implemented have definitely been an improvement. I just saw the original front page is back, the Explicit/Questionable/Safe tags have colours and the themes also work.

It took a while, but at least it's heading back in the right direction.

Really glad the themes are back! I missed Bloodlust :p Now all we need is the name of the user who uploaded an image under "information" and then it's perfect.

egekilde said:
Really glad the themes are back! I missed Bloodlust :p Now all we need is the name of the user who uploaded an image under "information" and then it's perfect.

Not going to happen. Not now, not ever.
The admins have been very clear about that.

Yay, the front page is back!! The search button looks a lot better too. Thanks!!

I appreciate that the site staff are willing to listen to users and improve the site accordingly. The site looks much better now (not that it was ugly before), the increase in simultaneously searchable tags is nice, and among the several other changes and features, the site feels nice to use! Good job!

The new vote up/down buttons are pretty good, even if it's a little awkward to still have the old upvote/downvote buttons on the sidebar.

bitwolfy said:
Not going to happen. Not now, not ever.
The admins have been very clear about that.

Oh I must have missed that. Can I ask why though? Not that I personally upload as much as I used to, but it was nice seeing who the uploader was.

egekilde said:
Oh I must have missed that. Can I ask why though? Not that I personally upload as much as I used to, but it was nice seeing who the uploader was.

the main discussion around this change can be found
here: https://danbooru.donmai.us/forum_topics/15088
and here: https://danbooru.donmai.us/forum_topics/15916

About a year ago, Danbooru rolled out a system to obscure the uploader of a post, replacing it with an idea called Top Tagger. The top tagger is whoever adds the most tags to a post. This was an attempt to discourage upload sniping, since credit would be rewarded not to the person who uploads the post first, but whoever supplies the most information

'upload sniping' was the practice of adding posts with (initially) the minimum number of tags, racing against other users who might be trying to upload the same post.
obviously the 'top tagger' field has since been removed.

bipface said:
the main discussion around this change can be found
here: https://danbooru.donmai.us/forum_topics/15088
and here: https://danbooru.donmai.us/forum_topics/15916

'upload sniping' was the practice of adding posts with (initially) the minimum number of tags, racing against other users who might be trying to upload the same post.
obviously the 'top tagger' field has since been removed.

Ah interesting, have that been an issue here though? From my experience most posts seem decently tagged at upload. But actually it does make sense. Thanks!

Yay! I also love the large up/downvote and favorite buttons below the image. Also yay for the front page and search memory! <3