Sidebars - Get rid of them

[Jeremy Horton]

Can we get rid of the sidebars? This new one on the left really makes the forum discussion area small...The forum area used to take up about 90% of the screen, now it's about 50%. The forums are much harder to use with these sidebars taking up so much room. 

Also - pop-ups. I keep getting a pop-up at the top and bottom of the page and am having to close them out every time I move around the forums or my page refreshes. Another thing that makes the forum very hard to use