I dislike the reddit style forums...

That being said they are unlikely to change the actual format of this forum based off of how they have handled it so far. If anything they'll try to add in some features and more versatility. My recommendation is, if you don't like this format or style of forum, don't use this and stay on the old forums.

Just a small note, since you're on this thread. I think the beta forum could use an additional sub-community a'la general discussion in the original forums. Sometimes there are topics people want to talk about on here that aren't strictly League related and as it stands there isn't necessarily an appropriate spot for those threads.

I've also noticed that at certain points in conversations the nested portion for replies will reach a limit where you can no longer reply to a certain indentation level of nesting, and that should be looked into for either allowing continued expansion or some other manner of fixing that. Personally, I think it would be a good idea to have some more actionable form of moderation in this iteration of the League forums, something along the lines of flagging a post for questionable content (such as pornography and racist or homophobic content) as well as the ability to perhaps report a user for spam. Every once in a while you'll see users who are posting scam links in conversations or users who post their thread in every single sub-community in a copy pasterino fashion and I think it would be advisable to include a system in the forum to remove such posts or delete maliciously intended comments through moderation.

I just find the format very hard to process and feels somewhat overwhelming. I will say that the presentation here is better than that of reddit but it would still make coming to the forums a less pleasant experience for me. It has likely been discussed elsewhere but I haven't seen it: why go with the reddit style as opposed to just upgrading the standard format forums to have basic features?

I'm not who you were asking, but here's my two cents. The people who will like this format the least are FEK users, because we are moving from a great forum, with bold, personalized Avatars, embedded links, personal black list, and more and more and more, to a hard to look at, less intuitive to use format.

The biggest thing about the "LoL" forums, is that they should have SOMETHING to do with LoL. The generic white background hurts the eyes, aesthetically just doesn't look good, and fails to brand the entire page with League of Legends. Make the background the texture and color of faded old scroll. Add some visual hints that this website is in any way related to League of Legends.

But aside from how you can make THIS forum good, the reason so many of us like the other way is the traditional chronological order system. Dedicated gaming boards have always used this that, and we already have Reddit, so no need to copy their system.

edit: After another moment's thought, and my eyes burning and watering from looking at this page without my Gunnar's on, your number one priority should be making this a page that one wants to look at. The blinding white background, combined with it's entirely generic, nothing to do with LoL setup. There is the logo at the VERY top, and a little bit of art at the top, but after you scroll down even a little bit, the sidebars are just matte gray, and there's no more visible mention of LoL. Fix this and fix the background color and texture, until then, if I cherish my eye health and vision at all, I will avoid this site!