Randy, you're not that old. All these things are only since March 27 when I upgraded the software. Eric (HNSB) put a lot of work to make the new site match closely the old one, so it may seem the change wasn't that drastic. Here's a picture I made shortly after the transition that shows how the different links on the old page map to the links on the new one:

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We did try to keep everything that was important more or less to the same spots but some things like UserCP got more intuitive names like Settings and others moved to second level navigation. The search became a direct form instead a link to one and the link to the various search options is now 'Advanced Search'.

We could've made it look exactly like the old site but it was a good opportunity to make few small improvements. We got some complaints but I think that once people passed the 2 week refamiliarization period it was all good.

How about another trick - when you double click on the 'reply' button to a thread it opens the full featured editor instead of the light version of it that a single click does