Thank you so much for visiting here and all yours "likes". Plus many thanks for having the patience to go through the entire thread in one go. That takes quite some time.
The new format takes a bit of getting used to. I have now come to terms with it. Only gripe I have is new format is that if one wants to scroll to a particular post that is, say, 50-60 posts away, one has to do it in steps. the scrolling action is not smooth like for Facebook and so on. One other thing is that ones personal picture library is no longer accessible.
I am not saying the old format was that great. It too had issues. For example, it comprised of pages, each page was started, the intro post was repeated every time on the top. That was rather tiresome in my opinion.
Other than a few issues that one has to accept, on the whole new format is acceptable. Just a mater of getting used to it.