So a lot of Boards members (and by a lot I mean most of the active ones) have noticed something is really off about the Boards UI currently. Elements like message borders and blue overlays over sent messages have appeared, functions like emoji reacting to posts are straight-up gone, user pfps will scoot to the left at the top and bottom of the screen, and the layout for notifications is entirely different.
What happened? is this a planned update, or did the forums host change their layout unexpectedly?
might as well flag the topic now that the answer has presented itself