After having played around a bit with the relaunch, I have to say I am not pleased. It's not horrible, but there's literally no improvement over the old version. It's not any harder to navigate really, but hot files feature is well... useless now. It only shows 2 mods with description blurbs instead of letting you look at the descriptions of the other hot files by hovering your mouse over them. The real problem isn't that though, it's that everything always has images now. As someone with slow internet, this vastly increased the load times of the site. A wonderful addition that would fix this would be to add in a "list mode" option that only displayed the names of the mods, like how they're listed in the old layout when you click to brows new or recent files. Still... this entire change was unnecessary. It improved upon nothing, and change for the sake of change is a pointless waste of effort and time. None of the customers (i.e. users) thought change was necessary and most are unhappy now that it's occurred. When focused on the product, you should be focused on the needs of the customer. We did not need this, so there was no need to implement it.
Still... all that I feel is really needed to make it more tolerable is a "compact mode" that reduces picture sizes and a "list mode" that eliminates pictures when browsing altogether for people with slower internet speeds.