What's next? Replace or fix these Forums...

Thank-you for the speed increase This is how they should have been from the beginning. Why did it take so long? I guess it's like a dangerous road intersection - nothing done until a several people loose their lives... In this case the forums became virtually unusable as did the documention etc for every user before any action was taken..

So what's next? These forums, though faster now, are still pretty poor functionally
Are we going to continue with these forums or move to better software? Let's see some proaction rather than just "fire-fighting"...

If we stay have to be stuck with this forum software how about starting to fix some of the many problems - here's a simple few to get started...

1. Provide a better search function - the present one is useless and pathetic
2. A means of previewing your append befor submitting
3. Change the inaccurate "3 hours ago" "2 days ago" etc nonsense. For example, "more than a month ago" is not very informative for a thread that is several years old. I should not need to look at appends in the thread to see when the discussion took place. For example, just replace this crap with the date of the original append that started the thread. This would probably have the benefit of removing a lot of complexity in the code. We are quire capable of working out how old something is by looking at a date...
4. Content between "code" tags. Stop this stupid changing of parts of the content into emoticons. Stop splitting long lines and use scroll bars instead. Content between code tags should NEVER be altered...