User:SOTO/Forum Archive/A new Tardis, at last/@comment-4942617-20141223151602/@comment-1432718-20141224002047 I agree as well. It was fine when they were on the side of the page; if a user was interested, they were easy to find but not in the way of users who weren't interested. Now they are smack dab in the middle of the page, sometimes on top of all content.
Like many of the other new design features, this one creates more work for users.