Subtle changes, bugs and feedback

I've tried all the fonts that Firefox offers me but no luck. What was the name of the old font again?

The old font stack was: 'Trebuchet MS','Verdana','Tahoma','Arial',sans-serif

It would use the first one of those that you had installed on your system.

Gotcha, it's a bit of a strain to read across each thread row to find that info (most users probably scan up/down the thread column), I imagine that some eye tracking on LFGSS would show that the majority of the right hand side goes unviewed.

My gut feeling is that the "down arrow" (which serves no purpose currently, right?) could be more useful for this kind of functionality (point right if you're subscribed to the thread/part of the conversation for example).

I agree on the eye tracking.

The common eye tracking pattern is an F shape:
1) Across the top
2) Across the middle
3) Down the left

So the thread icons where they are, well they're pretty invisible. If you see them it's the result of darting around the page to see them.

I've never known how valuable the thread icons were, as they're visual and not clicks... so I've had no measurement of them I could use.

Do people care that they're subscribed to a thread, or that it has attachments? Do people ever care about the thread ratings?

I agree with you that we as the minority who author posts do care about seeing which of the threads we've participated in.

The question is just how to represent this visually.

On the left hand side seems best, but I also don't want to interrupt the speed at which people can scan the thread titles.

I've not got a lot of data to backup the decisions I make here, which is why the design this week has been evolutionary. Make a change, give it time and see how it feels, rinse and repeat.

If I hear overwhelmingly that the thread icons are useless and ignored, then I'll abolish those and focus just on hinting at participation on the left hand side.

But, if the icons are used, then the most logical place for another attribute of the thread is within that group.