I miss some features of v6 too... : (

Oh! Finally, after some days with this new version, I think I appreciate it much more, but some things are a bit annoying...
I don't like, as I've wrote below, the Artist's Comments now hidden by default, the search bar which is now available only on the main page, the avatars and the "Reply" button which aren't integrated into the comment box, and the new messages center only show the numbers of "Messages" in the inbox...

Hopefully, the deviantART staff will fix some of the problems in the next days... ^^

Indeed, I think the Artist's Comments being hidden by default is a very bad idea, and lots of people may miss some eventual useful and/or important things wrote by the artist here...

And I've got the same problem about the big comment box bug (which take the whole page!).
I'm not very sure, but I think this is a problem with the "deviantPLUS v3" Greasemonkey script extension... :/

Same thing here... I like some new features, but I don't like lots of things...
And, the new version of deviantART take more time to load deviations and pages on my computer, whatever the web browser I use, and my Internet connection is fast (ADSL 17MBits/s)... Maybe a problem on the website...