My preferred language is set to German, but the forum is english. Yes I can .. change it to german manually.
And while on it, hers some critics:
Using flags to symbolize languages isn't appreciated everywhere, but I can understand it makes it easy to accomplish a task. However I never ever would us the US flag for english.
Appart from the new varnish (and probabely a framework that facilitates administration) I am not entusiastic about the new layout. I hope it's not the final one.
In case someone is interested, the header is a waste of space.
The main frame, the forum itself, does not expand which compared to the old layout is a regression. It makes the whol thing looooooooong.
The lefthand menu still has some more or less redundant items, but is missing a link to the map which could give an overview to some hidden content (We had this "discussion", now we have it again). And finaly a link to the IRC would be invitating to really use it and thus help new users to easily get in direct contact. (Yes, there is this button on each desktop, but it's the only road to Rome. Why not *built* anotherone).
And there is a missfunction,too: While on the editor, I can only mark text within the first 10 lines. I cannot mark it using the mouse within the following lines.
The editors own logic to (dis-)respect or eat newlines is a POS. If there is a way to disable it, please do so, if not, that's a regression, too.
Same goes for the marking logic: It's assumptions of what it thinks I liked to mark is nearly 100% wrong.