I'm sorry, but for the most part, I don't like it. Swear to you, when I first went to Neopets today, I thought I'd gone to the wrong site. My resolution's already higher than 1024x768 and I STILL have to scroll sideways to see everything. Minus several hundred cool points right there. And my god, there's just way, WAAAAAAY too much stuff on most pages. Don't like the little drop-down menus either. The navigation was just fine on the side. I don't need anything that's there now. A picture of my pet, in case I forgot what it looks like, and a continual reminder that none of my friends are online. Gee, thanks.
I have mixed feelings about my pets now. Some I don't like- Why is my Uni missing part of his mane (??!!!), for example. And I'm some of you will hate me for this, but I actually liked it better when my Acara was standing up. She just likes walking like that (usually so her front paws are free to read a book). Though I guess I should be happy they didn't mess it up completely - when the Acaras were revamped a while back, I wasn't happy with the look. The Pirate 'Roo, I can live with, even though the shirt's weird-looking. Drilax was going to be a Grey Gelert, but that was because I loved the old image...I don't suppose anyone here has one and can show me what they look like now?
And all the pets are so tiny to me now...I wish they'd take up a little more of the space. I feel like I'm squinting at them.
I honestly don't know if I can "get used" to this layout. I wish they had read some more feedback before implementing it. I'll give it a chance - already I'm over the initial gag reflex, errr, initial shock - but...I don't know. I've been contemplating finding another virtual pet site for a while, even though I put a LOT of work into creating/painting these pets, choosing colors that I thought best embodied their personalities, continuing to develop those characters, and putting them - all of them, even the ones on my side accounts - into this big story about Neopia. Kinda my theories on what goes on there, how pets are made, why a pet can have parents of two totally different species, how they view their owners, how Neopia itself came to be, etc.
Anyway, my initial reaction to the site redesign was so unfavorable that, for those brief few minutes...and it's still kind of lingering now...I wanted to just throw away all my Neopets-related art, forget in a single day the story that was almost two years in the making, and try again at Subeta.