As a number of people have said, chatting takes longer to achieve as extra clicks are required. This is actually quite important at the table as when someone asks a question it takes longer to respond, especially when you factor in the lag. Also, any other comment either a general one in the club or a comment re vu graph or another comment from a player means that your comment pretty much disappears off the screen. This is exacerbated due to the chat log box being smaller and the chat font being bigger. Finally, the whole point of the site is to play bridge and so making it harder to see the cards, harder to select the cards goes against that primary purpose. Wasting so much space in that new bar on the right hand side is just wasteful, as it's not something you would use most of the time. Better to trigger its appearance by clicking on a button than having it take up space all the time. Oh, no, that sounds like the OLD version :) I have reverted to the previous version on my iPad and that was after having used the new one for 3 sessions of play. I undoubtably got used to the new one and became more adept at using it, but that doesn't impact the basic faults highlighted above. Please think again BBO.
