Why have the reply to or main posting on the left side separate from the actual message. It's tied to the message and shouldn't be separated from it. Causes way too much confusion.
Once you see it you know where to click from now on, but it still isn't efficient use of space.
The link to the previous post and current replies was so easy to obtain and now you have to look in two places.
Just silliness on the layout and I can't say I've ever seen this as the standard amongst BBS.