This is a serious constructive criticism.  Who actually designed this forum?  I have to say, it is one of the very good looking sites.  The color theme is easy on the eyes. But it has the WORST navigation design of all times.  Not that I have a problem navigating the site.  I am definitely smart enough to figure it out.  But it is just terribly designed...

Here is an example of one of those bad ideas...

I see what you mean but do you really want to deal with someone who isn't smart enough to figure it out?

Damn obviously I went to the wrong section to make comments...  Admin, please move to the forum suggestion section if there is one...

It's a test, which you may or may not pass ... depending on whether you really are smart enough.

It's a tough thing to get used to this layout for sure. It won't be long though and you'll be able to navigate it just as easily as you navigate DU.

Guilty,in the biggining I would Im the wrong person but after acouple of wrong Im's you get the hang of things :-)

Exactly.  That's my point.  Its not a deal breaker.  I am sure tons of people do exactly that and not say a thing about it.  Instead they blame themselves for not reading.  Again, People will find their ways without a problem.  But if its done with a better perspective of general users.  I am just OCD about clean and intuitive design of user interfaces.

I am not demanding for a change.  Just a suggestion...  Perhaps inverse the color of the buttons below each message, so that's its not mistaken for next mesage.  Or maybe right align it.

You can realign the thread layout in your preferences.