I liked it the way it was, even though the new look is a lot cleaner visually.
I liked that fact that all I had to do to read previous posts was scroll down, now I need to look off to the side and all those little tags confuse me.
And I think all of them are getting the same facelift because I saw that format on Jalopnix the other day, and now Gawker has the new facelift.