Wow. 2.0 is utterly opposed to the simplicity of the old site. If I liked lots of clutter competing for my attention, I’d visit Yahoo Shopping.

Part of the attraction of Tanga used to be that the current deal smacked you in the face with a giant image and a price as soon as you loaded the home page. Today, I was assaulted by little icons and snippets of text all over the place, with the deal-of-the-minute halfway down the page. Its photo was shoved into a postage stamp of a preview! And why is the activity of other site users placed above everything else on the home page after I log in? That’s slightly less interesting than “top points in the last 24 hours” down at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar.

Why are the puzzles now teeming with twitterit/reddit/diggit/deliciousit/kickit/killit/maimit links? Would puzzles really be worth reporting to news sites? Even bookmarking sites?

Why is the Hypercross image displayed below the puzzle? For each answer, you have to click a line, scroll to see the clue, and scroll back up to enter your guess. Even with 1024 vertical pixels and no browser toolbars.

On the deal page, why is the Tanga Deal description at the top in big print, and the product name and tagline in small print on the right? Shouldn’t those be transposed?

Why do indented paragraphs in comments cause the line to bleed into the advertising sidebar?

And why does editing your comment indent every paragraph, causing the above problem?

I figured 2.0 would add some flashier graphics (the navbar is fine, though I don’t need the Home/Profile/Contribute tabs and I’d put the Tanga Deal on the left). I didn’t expect Tanga to take so many design steps backward.