I'm going to join in on the fun.

First of all - calm the fuck down. Everyone who went completely nuts over how much they hate the new layout, just calm down. Are you that afraid of change? dA is trying to improve the site for OUR benefit - not to piss us off. They worked really hard on it. Maybe if you POLITELY tell them you're unhappy with the new layout, in the future they'll have an option to go back to the old one. Kinda like how you can choose different skins on message boards. It's not the end of the world.

At first, I didn't like the feel of the front page. It felt too... Open. And naked. But now that I'm used to it, I like it. The only thing I don't like now is the message thing at the top - all it says is how many deviations and how many messages I have. I miss how it would say if you had comments, notes, journals, etc. and have a separate link to them. And that's about it. At least it's not hideously ugly with giant ads everywhere or whatever. I also like the new color. The old one was nice too, BUT IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL. Are you going to stop using the site just because it looks different? Wow.. When I put it that way, it sounds kinda racist. Or whatever word you use for web sites *rolls eyes*.

I think the first thing that caught my eye and that I like is having my avatar and username etc. on the right side of the page. I don't know why, but I like it.

So just calm down, stop shitting your pants, and get used to it.