Slashdot has updated their site to use the design of the recent "Redesign Slashdot" contest. I didn't really care for the design when I saw the mock-ups, and now that the entire site has been updated, I'm finding even more things that, while they may make the site seem more "Web 2.0," get in the way of easy browsing:

• The "X of X comments" links used to be big and bold and easy to click. Now, they just blend into the page and are harder to find.
• The rounded corners for each comment make it harder (for me anyway) to determine if a comment is a child of the one above it, or just a sibling.
• The moderation scores are on the far right, away from the comment's title. A +5 used to really catch my eye and I'd take time to read it, but that will probably happen less and less.

There's more discussion of the pros/cons of the new design in the "100 Best Tech Products" thread at Slashdot (at least until they post a story about the design change), but there is one thing I have to say that I like about the new design: it doesn't appear to break the Slashdotter Firefox extension.