It's just... too big. I should have said it in the last thread, but I didn't want to look like a fuddy-duddy: I do not like this, I find it absolutely reprehensible, it makes me a lot disappointed and a little bit sick, and I'm not sure how alone I am in this because no other dissenting voices spoke up at all. But that's a weak sort of thing to say, so I'll make the fair-ish assumption that I'm completely alone in hating this new front page. In that regard I demur my objections in-general and raise a smaller one:

• the thing is too big

Does it have to take up the entire horizontal space? Would it be too much a sacrifice to halve its x and y dimensions?