I'm not 100% sure what the driving force behind some of these changes were. I will investigate.
Edit: regarding the Recent visitors rollup, that saves interface space at the top, Something I am in favor of.
Edit 2: I suspect, but do not have clarification on, that the"bread crimb" change was due to implementing a different codeing method than the one that was there before. If I remember right, that portion of the forum was actually created by a secondary application. That may be why it dissappeared from the bottom. Making it smaller shouldn't be too much of a problem. I'll see if I can't get someone to put it back on the bottom though, or maybe replace it on te bottom with a "quick jump" style drop down box instead.
Edited, Mar 29th 2009 1:14pm by Kaolian