While we do have a completely new design we want to move to eventually, we're starting out by evolving the current layout a bit. This will include both small changes (like the Toggle Sidebar button), small fixes (like the glitched background problem, sidebar getting cut off on some pages, the header/dropdown buttons acting weird on narrow screens, and problems with the page jumping), and a couple bigger changes that we'll probably make posts/announcements for.

Please feel free to ask me any questions you have about future layout changes :) I generally can't answer questions about timeline (it's hard to estimate!) but I can try to answer any other questions you have. Just be aware that the nature of this means a lot of it is figured out as we go - for instance, we may start with a great idea, but realize while implementing it that it won't work as well as we thought, or that some other option is just better.

What do you mean? This is the view on an iPhone 8 for instance, and it's clickable and functional there:

If the issue is with the navigation dropdown buttons, yeah... those buttons are a problem haha. They behave weirdly in general and they're also written with a library we need to get rid of (PrototypeJS). They'll be rewritten with Bootstrap/jQuery and made to behave in a much more reasonable way on narrower screens. (So like right now, if the screen is too narrow, they kinda slide downwards on the page and get in the way of everything and are also hard to click. That's one big thing we're going to fix.)

First off, widgets will be removed in the new layout, not this one. That's pretty far in the future at this point. Right now we're just making tweaks to improve the current layout. Sorry for any confusion!

However, that is why we're not going to be working on new widgets or major widget updates.

You really don't need to worry about widgets/bookmarks being gone in the new layout, because it's a completely new layout - which means they will be replaced with something better. The new layout won't even have a "Toggle Sidebar" button because it won't have a sidebar. That doesn't mean it will have nothing, just that we are rethinking the layout and trying to find better ways to do what the current layout does.

But again, that's going to be way in the future at this point, so don't worry about it right now. There will be time for proper discussion/feedback on those ideas in the future, when we're actually working on it.