In reply to Simon Caldwell:
Although I strongly suspect your vitriol is somewhat tongue in cheek, I will answer...
I think you may be in a minority in not wanting to see your own ascents. Our observations of how people used Logbook indicated that people were more focussed on their own performance. You could of course save yourself 2 clicks by bookmarking the Partners ascents -
http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/latest_ascents.php?sorting=2 and then it will always open up on that page.
Being able to see everyone's recent ascents has been a much requested feature and is incredibly useful for checking route condition.
The recent changes have nothing much to do with Smart Phones apart from that they are far smaller pages and much more efficient to load. This helps people on dodgy connections, those with paid data connections and by reducing our astronomical bandwidth costs (a bit).
Cheers
Alan