Well, here's my input: It's not bad, and I assume things will improve, however, I do get the feeling that when reading the forums the body of the message is now more squished between the left/right thread side-bars and the post-side bar (the part where the avatar is located). Perhaps they're the same size as before and that the new colour scheme makes it only seem that way, but that's one thing I've noticed so far. The other is that quotes are not as easily identifiable as they are only indented, while before they also had a nice little divider breaking it apart from the rest of the post. However the old divider was kinda cumbersome, I would suggest using either a different font or different background colour for quoted text.
Having said that, the new look isn't bad, and I think people will get used to it with time. I was hoping that the new version of Xoops would have a spelling checker built into the edit window and perhaps a quick edit feature, but no big deal really.
- Mike
