Speaking in general terms… IMPO responsive design is flawed with the same paradigm flaws of "print design ported to the web". The one size fits all approach, in the case of print to web did not work. And I think the beta design has these issues in the "web design ported to mobile". Print, web and mobile design have characteristic that do not port over to each other. Have you see the new usatoday.com they seem to have the opposite problem, mobile design ported to the web.

Speaking to the redesign… I agree with what others have said… what am I supposed to look at? Everything on the page is calling my attention. When I scroll up and down, I'm not sure if I missed a box. It also seems that the page should be flipped, larger squares on the left, smaller on the right.

In contrast with the current design, when I scroll down, I immediately know if I missed a post when I visited 2 hours ago.

To be honest, if your traffic/engagement numbers go up, who the hell cares :)