Sadly, the forum software get worse on every release.
No useful support for mobile devices (even on large iPhone 6 it's not readable or scrollable 
). Seriously: I can no longer use the forum on my mobile device!
Still no Tapatalk support.
Looks like the Forum Admins would like to get rid of all the members posting too many messages.
You are correct correct.
On my iPad I can no longer scroll on a thread any more, completely unusable.
Perhaps they didn't realize people use iPhones/iPads to monitor the forums. 
I think the fix would be getting rid of the quick response box, but I don't think they will admit to this.
For some reason I can no longer select text, this may be do to incompatiblity between iOS8 and this release.
What bothers me is, why didn't they at least let the moderators review the release before they committed this version on everyone.
I have to wander if the designers are proud of this effort.