Dalswyn: To be fair to Gog, they've just fixed something that predated the downgrade: clicking on your username on the topbar used to bring up a 404 page if your privacy settings were cranked up. Now it shows your game library. Hurrah?
This was silently fixed few weeks (2month max?) after the privacy f*ckup, so this one is not result of redesign.
Although you have good point, the change did make it into redesign, which means that either:
1) they coded whole redesign in few weeks, starting from patched sources (would explain some of the quality, but not sure why GOG would rush so much, it's not like the old site was failing)
2) they have somebody on the team capable to merge patches into different branch ... that would sort of impress me, sometimes it felt like they have people who don't even use versioning tools.
3) they have somebody on the team capable to do that manually without versioning tools (i.e. somebody aware of what they are doing and why and how things work, although he's forced to suffer to do it in ineffective way) ... naah, can't be.
4) it popped out when QA was testing known test-scenario (created after that privacy backlash) and it got fixed ahead of release... Hm, but they don't have QA testing new versions of website, right, nor do they some kind of process of it? Can't be.
Sooo... which one is most likely? This is quite puzzling me, whichever you pick, it shows there's at least one person in their dev team somewhat competent... that's definitely new for me.