I remember hearing the same thing then though.... that the old software was out of date, and had to be upgraded to the new software. It looked horrible at first, but someone (I cant remember who) posted to just be patient, that the people who made RCU the awesome site it had been were still running things and it was gonna be good again. Very shortly it was back to running better and looking almost just like it had before.
This looks horribly different. Like someone else said it looks like facebook, and RC Groups, and any number of other generic forums. If you cant go back to the old software how about at least editing this to the point that it feels like the old RCU? (especially the awesome Picture Interface!!)