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I can’t say I’m enjoying use of the forum in the new site. There’s more complexity instead of less. I personally have always found complexity on web sites to be a killer. Especially for interactive things like a discussion forum. One basic primary example. the community forum which has all comments running down like a stream, in order of recent to least recent. Only the replies can be seen. They have no context or reference point because from scrolling down message to message/topic to topic, only an abstract recent comment can be read and not the penultimate post/question. It requires clicking into the individual conversation and then clicking back out of it again. I suppose its ultimately personal preference but its not seamless and intuitive, and I have to personally review every conversation just to even see if I want to read it. Honestly, as someone who has enjoyed being an active contributor to the forum for a long time, I’ve felt an aversion to logging in to the new forum for the above reasons, because it’s not easy and pleaant to read and write thus am going for long stretches in between doing so.