I’s not unusual to see a dip when things first change. The question is what happens, going forward.
I’ll put this out there. I know I’m not the only one on this forum who LEFT the Princeton Review forums back in about 2003 or so due to the poor management of those forums.
I’m extremely disappointed that the owners of college confidential feel the Princeton Review is a good partner given their past, very poor performance in the forum area.
I think the forum will be more telling in a few weeks. That’s when there should be an uptick since kids will be more geared up to looking at applications more seriously.
OMG I still hate it and notice I am avoiding coming here.
It is too hard to find new posts to comment on.
I think its because everyone keeps posting on this thread, which is getting no one any help. This thread should be closed, in my opinion, as College Confidential will not change back at this point, and no use to keep whining and whining here. If this shuts down I would be able to see other threads that i have posted on, but now i cannot see them, because this thread has a ridiculous number of daily comments, and my other threads are lost, so I don’t bother to read them. Close this thread ASAP.
@Coloradomama It’s convenient tho. All the posters on one thread on the homepage. Super easy no navigating necessary ?
I don’t think closing this thread will make the format any easier. Or make me want to stay involved with the snarky kids I seem to have hit lately. Nor make the quality of poster responses any better.
@Coloradomama, How would closing this thread make it easier to see other threads you posted on?
I have checked a few times a day. Mainly I feel sad and am leaving bit by bit. I will miss the posters I have come to respect. I have felt like have had an amazing support group.
?? the text hurts my eyes.
I do find I can’t spend a lot of time here, at any one time, because of eye strain.
So, @Roger_Dooley , what we see is what we get and no changes will be made?
Figured I’d reserve judgement until I returned from vacation and had access to my laptop. Can’t read all 81 pages of comments but it’s clear there’s a lot of discontent with the redesign. Am I the only one who LIKES it? I find the new font much easier to read and it’s easier to get to what I need on my iPhone and iPad. I had a half day of confusion until I figured out where everything was but since then the only problem I’ve had is that on my iPad the search button shows up as a circle and doesn’t show the text when I’m putting in a search term.
I do think the active user board is silly. I’d much rather see a list of posters with high “helpful” ratios or “helpful” counts to help new posters figure out who the sager, saner voices are, not just necessarily those of us who spend way too much time on CC. The badges (an earlier addition) are not useful to me. I assume they’re meant to encourage more posts but I don’t think they’ll achieve that goal.
Chance can be difficult, but all told, I think once people get used to the new design they’ll find it easier to use than the old one.
Closing this thread is a colossally terrible idea, @Coloradomama. Many, MANY posters are frustrated, and need a place to vent (and respond to each other). If this gets closed, it will ooze out all over the forum, and the mods will have their hands full trying to manage the frustration that influences posts that will likely occur elsewhere. If this isn’t the “latest post” that is seen when you open the forum, something else will be, and it is my hope that the landing page post is not some silly one from some bored kid wasting the collective posters’ time.
The issue isn’t this thread- the issue is the challenge learning to navigate the new format. As has been recommended (in this thread, so there is helpful information here), you can click on the mortarboard symbol and then select one of the forum options typed in yellow. Or scroll down (a royal PITA) to the “featured threads” or, if on an ipad or computer, look right and select “latest posts”.
Better to learn to navigate the forum than complain about the posters venting about it, about the thread where we are learning about the history of the changes from Roger, some updated info from Sorin who is reading the suggestions and complaints here. And if this thread had been closed, where would you have gone to complain? 
The “say it here” thread doesn’t allow responses. This thread is extremely important for many reasons. Feel free to continue to complain here.
@lucyvanpelt, One policy this site does have that I’m learning to like is that new posters need to have 15 substantial posts to be able to send PMs. I’m adapting that rule. There are so many new posters with what I think are nonsensical questions that I’m not going to respond to any of them until they have several posts of some substance.
@Sue22, If you’d read all 81 pages you’d have seen that we established many pages ago that people’s dissatisfaction with this site isn’t because they don’t like change and aren’t used to the new design. We don’t like specific things about the design itself.
And risk the ire of the users who like this thread? I think we’ll keep it open. 
I’m sure this has been asked before, but how does one get to the specific college majors section?
Oh - never mind, I found it. It looks all the old menus can be found by going under the headings on the left-hand side.
@hoggirl It took me a while to find as well. Go to discussion topics on the left side of the home page, click on college admissions and search, scroll down.
@Sue22 I think there are tweaks that can be made (removing the nonstop video was much needed!) but overall I am not experiencing issues with the new format or finding things (I access on a laptop). With the old version, I need to zoom in to adjust the font size. With the new version, I have it set at “actual size” and it is easier format read. I adapted very quickly.
I can’t comment on issues people are experiencing on the mobile app because don’t use it.
I just don’t see reddit as a better communication tool. Talk about clunky.
I’m on a cell phone. There aren’t any menus on the left hand side, and there’s only acres of white space on the right. I have to scroll all the way to the top, back out to the home screen, then do lots and lots of scrolling to find the menus. Since all the menus seem to have been condensed down into a small handful I then have to click around and do lots of scrolling to find what I want. There are way more steps to navigating this site than there needs to be. For something that was supposed to improve the mobile experience, this is an utter fail.
Hi All. I’m in the “I don’t think anything is going to change” club. Sad face, to be sure. I’m not visiting CC anymore, however, I was working on something else and came across these suggestions for designing web pages for seniors on fonts.com.
“White Space: Incorporate lots of white space to reduce eye fatigue. Add space in the margins, between text sections, and around graphics.”
also “Black type on a white or very light background is the most accessible for senior eyes. Avoid reverse or drop-out text, which is more difficult to read.” I think plenty of people would disagree with this one too.
I rushed over to tell you thinking this might explain some of our new disappointing UI (I’m on my laptop so just imagine the puking emoji). I didn’t post much over the years, but still lurked a lot and sent many of my friends to CC when their kids were entering high school. Now I’m spending my downtime on other forums, listening to podcasts and no longer ignoring the Merriam Webster word of the day.
I told my husband it really moved my cheese when these changes were made, but I’m most sad for all the students who will have lost a valuable resource. What about all of those kids who’ve reached out for help when they were in desperate need? The ones who were really struggling. Who will help them if the best CC users move on to other online communities? One of the reasons I spent a lot of time reading threads that normally wouldn’t interest me was that I was learning how to become a better communicator from some of the best teachers out there. Some of you folks are WISE! This has been a great place to learn how not to rise to the bait. Oh, the restraint that some people always manage to exhibit. And then there are so many who just show love to the prickly posters. That always makes me think, “Hey, I could do that” instead of just rolling my eyes. Those people remind me that we’re all human and there’s already enough hate in the world. (That being said, gosh, I hate this reply box! Sorry if this looks and reads like crap. I don’t have what it takes to fight the endless white space in an attempt to fix it.)