New format, dislike.....

I do not care for the soft-colored, low contrast presentation but I may get used to it.

Sorry.  I find that the new format is so off-putting that I no longer check in regularly.  My loss, maybe, but it is too much bother.

Navigation and display.  

OK.  It is a holiday and I have time. I like information-rich pages.
1. Print is small and, if I make it bigger, I see less because.......
2. There is too much wasted white space on the screen on the sides and between posts, so I see less.
3. The screen with recent posts seems too cluttered as I am distracted by the use of color.
4.  The excess space makes for more scrolling than before.

Now, there may be work-arounds for these things but I have not been motivated to investigate.  

I have no idea what "sort and collide" means and I do not want to manage anything. I have always come here and scanned the posts of the last 12/24 hours, dealt with the ones of interest and left. It is simply more difficult to do that now.  

FWIW, I am not gone but my visits will be much less frequent.