They want to try to make Gaia always up to date, true this new layout is a royal pain in the a**, but the mods ARE trying. you have to give them that. This new layout is difficult for us older members (i joined just before they changed to the MyGaia that was changed from...i think 200 cool . The Notifications about EVERYTHING are annoying. The mods are doing what they think is best for the site... but in all reality I think they are slowly scaring away the older members