This places the responsibility on theme authors to support the new classes. They are:

• alignleft
• alignright
• aligncenter

I'm not convinced of the need for the align prefix, but it's great progress nonetheless. If your theme doesn't support those classes, here's the code you can insert at the end to handle them:

.alignleft,.left {
	float:left;
	margin: 0.5em;
}
.alignright,.right {
	float:right;
	margin: 0.5em;
}
.aligncenter, .center {
	display: block;
	text-align: center;
	margin: 0 auto;
}

In that screenshot, there is:

1. A list of things you can do right now
2. A list of statistics about your blog's history
3. A Message alerting you to upgrade your theme.

Guess which one's the alert (*hint: it's not the red one*) ? I was wrong: nearly all of Joen's comments about the wordpress admin are still valid. Among the other things that I am incredulous that a professional design firm chose: The mystery meat navigation above the post area:

Let's be honest: Even if I could tell what the hell those first two images were supposed to represent, years of using Word, WordPerfect, and OpenOffice have taught me to click on the tree when I want to insert a picture. Why is the same tree there, if it doesn't mean the same thing?

It's disheartening that the design of the dashboard goes on completely behind closed doors, when everyone keeps talking about how big the community has become. Yes, allowing people to comment directly on the photoshop mocks before coding them out might have yielded a lot of stupid comments, and possibly taken forever.

But listening to the valid comments might have prevented this. After all that money and effort, Fluency is here, taking over for AFD admin as my monochromatic dashboard of choice. And it does usability better than the default.