Lol, not that big of a change. Working on a hopeful fix for the auctions issue, but in the meantime figured that this would allow more threads to be immediately viewable for those that have a hard time accessing the forums.
It's double the threads, I consider that a big change. We'll see how much of an impact it has, though.
Since making an entire thread for this is a bit hmm, I'll suggest it here: Can the "Recently Active Threads" text above the 20 recently active threads on the front page be made into an (not noticable, preferably) link to the "What's new" page? Would be especially handy on mobile, so you don't have to scroll up to see more threads.
I'll look into it. In the meantime, you can click on forums, and there's a shortcut right there for 'what's new?'
Thanks. Yeah, that's what I've been doing the past always, but it just seems so logical to add a link there.
It does seem like the change has much less of an impact than I might have imagined. I do like it, though!