Shelly, I realize that at this point, since I'm still trying to read all 3 thousand rants about the change that someone may have already noted what I'm going to post.
The link you gave lead to a page format more like a news issue or yahoo wide open ad strangled site.
I also noticed that the message reader needed to click another hyper for NEXT page in story. Is that where Ihub is going? Members would now have to click open more tabs or pages to read messages? It obviously creates 2 or 3 more pages for ads per message if they are long. This appears to be Advfns goal.
Ihub has had the comfy navigational feeling of staying within a message thread without all the confusing thread links back and forth, or going onto a total next page.
Your link opened my eyes because I think you just showed where Ihub is going. I now have rethought my comment to Janice that this would cause a loss of members. If Ihub mutates into that format, you may lose a large part of the older crowd. No one likes to hop to whole new pages to read a message. That site sets it up that way FOR the ads, no other reason. Please don't go there.