That was my main problem initially when the site changed to its present layout back in January... I asked Dain about it, and his response was as follows:
Originally posted by: DainOriginally posted by: mb7241
1.
It seems to be a touch more difficult to search for variations. The
real cause of frustration, though...what happened to seal and screw
variations? Some of us (Erik, myself, and some others) revel in things
like that... (-.75 points.)
2. (fixed)
3. (fixed)
#1 is a "known issue" in the sense that
the old variations didn't mesh well with the newer database model. In
fact, there are very few variations currently in the system. We'll be
rebuilding that data from the old data, and adding in new stuff as
well.
I guess I should go post a new topic for "Release notes"
-- I wrote up a bunch of notes about the update, and that was in there
(whoops!)