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You'll have to help me understand by pointing out the bits that feel disjointed.
It's not optimized for small screens at the expense of other sizes. Mobile use is rising but isn't just the majority of forum use (it's about 25%), so no.
But... what we're aiming for is a simpler, more natural experience. And that means we're trying to get to how things should be, and we're not necessarily bringing over baggage by retaining how things are today if they don't make sense.
And there's lots of little things in there.
For example:
Why is the username above the comment rather than to the left (as LFGSS does it today)?
And it's because on LFGSS we saw that some people had longer length usernames and this caused the comments to be indented at differing points which made it harder to read quickly.
Additionally we saw that recognition of who made a post was primarily driven by the avatar shape, size, colour, animation... and less by the actual text of the username. The image was the more familiar part and should be more prominent.
So we moved the username to the right of the avatar, and that means comments are aligned at the same point, recognition of the person who posted it is faster, and the usernames can be longer.
Yes it helps fit in on a smaller screen, but that would just be a design issue for us to solve and wouldn't dictate making a change like this.
So yes... it looks better on mobile, but mobile didn't dictate the changes.