Helloes,
If it was only changed for aesthetic purposes, please change it back, or make it a site option.
It wouldn't be aesthetic change, if it didn't change anything in how things look like. No, it was performance change. I did rework _some_ of the RC code, reducing at least 30% of costs involved. Still, it is way way too expensive - complex display logic is used for something very simple. Probably it would be best to have simple paging and/or AJAX RC browser (just take a look at http://toolserver.org/~river/recentchanges/ ;-)
BR,