Oh boy
I'd just upgraded Firefox and thought it was that, then up came the article about the redesign. Using either firefox or ie I've got about 50% of my screen completely white, either side of the screen, not pretty. The top third of the screen is taken up by a humoungous picture with the caption running opaquely through the bottom of the picture. I've a mate that's a printer, if he sees this in print he ends up rolling on the floor in tears at the ineptitude/inexperience of the layout designer, because it makes the text hard to read. I have to concur and think this is equally applicable to web design.
The white at the edge of the screen is like having two bright lights on either side of the screen, not very pleasant.
I've also only got one and a half row of articles at the bottom of the screen.
Was your UA testing internal, because you need more people commenting on it before you send something like this live, banks, big business (I've consulted at both) have big UA Testing teams.
Right end of comments because even the comments screen is hard to use. I do hope you can switch back quickly because this is plain 'orrible.