No, sorry, can't agree. On the old format, once you'd logged on to the 'today's news' page, then on an iPhone screen there were a few photos at the top and a bit of header, perhaps a system message, then at least half a screen of the most recent bird messages. As you scrolled down, about ten messages per screen became visible. Message time, species, site and area were all on one line, with usually only one extra line of text for details unless there were complex access arrangements. If you were looking for a significant message, the three red asterisks of a 'mega' message were easily visible on the extreme left.
On the new format, there is at least a whole screen of header and system messages (OK, probably more of the latter than usual at present), then a search function which takes up more than a screen, and then a map which again takes up at least a screen, before you get to the bird messages. Message time, species, site and area are all on separate lines, plus time of observation, if different, on yet another line, with any extra text in another box which is just as large. This results in only two messages on an iPhone screen, needing lots of fast scrolling which might result in running past messages.
I don't normally use a search function, so would want it to be separately available as it used to be, and I certainly don't want the map, which seems to default to all of Europe, with the British Isles buried under solid bird record markers, and needing to be heavily zoomed, and then for each marker to be clicked on, to be useful. Using the equivalent of about 8-10 lines for each message (and in a bigger font than previously?) also seems excessive when the previous format did it in a couple of lines.
Hopefully it will either be improved or turn out to be readily customisable, but I can't see any way to do the latter at present. Otherwise I might be investigating any RBA smartphone-orientated packages.