You can still read the boards via Classic, but the moment you respond it automatically switches over to the new format.  TER gave folks what they felt was a long enough time to transition over and get used to the new site and I'm guessing it won't be long now until the classic site option at the bottom is removed.  

And that sucks big time! I just tried to reply to your post in classic and it automatically switched me to the new format. The old "classic" TER stayed active and fully functional for years, side by side with "new TER" or "regular TER."  (What we are now referring to as "classic"). I thought they would do the same thing with this version, but looks like they are pulling the plug early, by changing it into a "read only" for now and probably totally eliminating it soon. Let's hope that is not true and this is just a glitch.

it still sucks, though I do like a couple of new features such as being able to read all the posts in a thread in the tree mode without closing and opening each one.  I also like that when it opens in flat mode, you get a run down on recent posts to all threads so you can check those out quickly without a lot of hunting.

But like anything else (like airline seats with only 29" of pitch), we'll get used to it.

Like Didi says in Waiting for Godot:  "I get used to the muck as I go along."

Such is life today...ain't it the truth?

Or I should say I was viewing it until I clicked REPLY.... But now back to the classic site.