Yes Todd has a few times - look up a few posts in this thread. Nothing more than we're keen to hear your views though. No commitment to change apart from making highlighted key frames more prominent…

One of the things that keeps tripping me up, even after using AE pretty much every day since the latest release (that's already a LOT of hours), is the background grey colour in the composition…

That's really good news to hear. very much looking forward to some performance improvements in the future:)

So we're 9 months on from that question. What was the outcome? is Adobe focussing on speed improvements? Obviously lots of time was spent on the UI revamp (maybe wasted time IMO). Are we going to see…

I've had one instance of an 'internal verification error' so far - didn't capture the code though. I was hoping it was a one-off but will raise it as a bug if I see it again.

Really? Those people obviously didn't sit in front of the new UI for several hours at a time and actually use the software. It's absolutely awful, way too contrasty and distracting. Please bring back…

Yes I feel they need to be coloured - B+W sits too closely with the folder icon in the project viewer for my liking and doesn't stand out enough - but please don't make it BLUE!! lol

Anyone know or have any inseder info on when we should expect 8.1?

There was a bug in MBL on Premiere CC 2014 that was causing crashing and lockups. Red Giant released an update quite quickly that so far seems to have fixed it for me. I know you're talking about AE…