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Is it my imagination, or does every single change /. makes to the layout make the site uglier, more wasteful of screen space, and harder to read?

Taco et al.: Please, for the love of God, stop. Stop screwing around with a perfectly good, functional layout. If you want to offer users choices of "themes" the way LJ etc. do, then great, but make it a choice. If there's some compelling reason to change things, let us know -- but I really don't believe there's any reason at all for the latest change to the way comments are displayed; it's purely an aesthetic decision, which happens to be a really bad one. Just ... stop.