I don't hate the icon thing, because I have a really fast connection & never LJ on my phone & enjoy looking at all my pretty icons anyway. But the lack of a subject line and preview comment and the parent/thread links... just plain stupid. LJ needs to invest in a PR firm to learn how to do these rollouts without pissing off their entire customer base. Cause the comments at news.livejournal.com? Freakin' gold.