What the heck has happened to the interface of these Sage Forums?

Everything has been transformed and now nothing is as user-friendly or intuitive as before.
I'm really surprised that nobody has thus far commented on it, or created a thread about it.

There are heaps of bugaboos:   Each Forum now displays only 15 topics per page, unlike
the previous 35.   Everything is now EXTRA spread-out -- not just vertically but horizontally
across the entire width of the page.  The 'rich formatting' seemingly doesn't work at all, etc.

But the biggest fail of all is the fact that the top 6 cms of EVERY page is PERMANENTLY
masked/blocked by 4 elements usurping 1/3 of the page:
   1 -- the Sage masthead with "Solutions Support Community Advice Partners"
   2 -- a woefully & unnecessarily oversized Search Box plus 4 lamentable icons
   3 -- a monster-sized sub-menu that could easily be made less than 1 cm high
   4 -- a needless sub-sub-menu displaying which forum we are currently surfing.
Furthermore, in the screenshot below, it's utterly laughable how only "General Discus..." is
displayed, despite the amount of free space immediately to the right:
> http://postimg.org/image/d3oi52p0v/

However, the worst aspect of all is that on every thread, VERY LITTLE is actually VISIBLE.  
Only 4 inches is viewable at any given time, and the"More Content" box continually covers
important content:   
> http://postimg.org/image/8xq7wc2uv/
> http://postimg.org/image/vl5h2hiev/

I can appreciate that this new Sage City forum is possibly meant to be a 'mobile' version,
but has it occurred to anybody at Sage that we don't do our Accounting or post any of our
Transactions or Journal Entries on a phone?

Please don't go the route of what 'Yahoo! Answers' did last year -- namely 1) ruin the site
for everybody, 2) turn into a dodo, and 3) become the laughing-stock of the internet world.

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