Works for me
First of all:
"but as long as I can still post utter toss in the comments sections and quality of the scribblers who send the articles in is still good, then I couldn't give a rats ass if the whole site was run through Upside Downterweb, It'll still be in my bookmarks."
Can't disagree with that, except that it's probably not quite as rude as if I'd written it.
@all the knobheads complaining about fixed-widths: go and read up about what 400 character-wide columns do to readability.
@font size fetishists: twiddle your browser and plan to buy reading glasses within the next five years and wrist support a lot sooner.
@numpty complaining about adds: real vultures use content blockers and have done ever since they existed.
@the Reg: In general a great improvement but please do CSS properly and add a print css and presumably one for mobiles. Site does render fine for me on Presto 9.6 and on my G900 but the background grey is too dark and the icons are mainly cock except for the coat one. Looks like an updated form of 1970's naive style and let's face it the 70's was the decade that style forgot. As for you symbols: either photorealism or iconographic but never, ever both. Smells like an opportunity for a competition. The Economist recently reinvented itself to good effect (except for mobiles).
Mine's the one with the nearly completed manuscript "How I made the internet" and would you order me a taxi and a couple of coke whores? Ta,