I totally remember Old Mibba, and I have to say, I miss it like crazy. I mean, I don't necessarily miss the old layout, but I miss the things that came with it. Personally, Mibba would be A+ if it had the old custom layouts back (or at least the option to make the custom layouts default instead of these newer layouts).
I remember the old layouts! I kind of miss that a lot because I loved seeing everyone's crazy profiles, but I agree with castile's vessel; they could get extremely long sometimes.
The layouts you're describing weren't bad - I actually quite liked them - and I do kinda miss them, but sometimes they just got so long and when users would fill their "about me" with picture after picture, profiles would never load for me.
My favourite things about old Mibba was definitely the birthday balloons (because then we had the birthday threads) and the online section at the bottom of the forums. It was so handy and I loved scrolling down and seeing a random read username and knowing that Dujo was online and probably tinkering with something to do with the site.
Oh, and when Dujo's profile was that chat screen. When I first went to his profile, I had no idea what I'd done!
I completely forgot about the Chat thing! I went on once to talk to this guy who was way, way older than me...he was in his twenties and I must've been like thirteen? He was nice though I also remember changing my custom profile like every other week. I had some pretty good ones. I didn't have an avatar when I first joined, so I didn't get any welcomes but I always loved welcoming new people and making new friends! I also remember when we didn't have blog layouts so we could use like BB Code to change our text and stuff. AND BLOGS WERE CALLED JOURNALS OMG. the good ol' days.
Even though I rarely ventured to the Forums---birthday balloons were pretty damn snazzy.
Also, the fact that alerts were text links in different colours. That was cute. Hmm. When we would know how many people were online via the Forums "homepage" and we'd freak out whenever the Bossman was online.
I loved the old profile layouts! I remember when I first found out about the update! Then as I got used to that update, Mibba was updated again LOL. and I believed I was one of those who used to welcome people here on Mibba. I don't know why I ever stopped. But I have tried to welcome people once in a while c: