The other big thing is the forums area is full of ads. I've tried to use other forums but the design didn't work or the ads were way too "in your face"


>Hey, we vote with our wallets here year after year, and we'll keep coming. It's mostly for the sake of newbies who may come in from the street, who'd get confused with things we take for granted (and those that we largely ignore - about half of the buttons on the toolbar have a centimeter thick cobweb in my browser).
>
>It's not that anybody here is advocating a total redesign of the messages area - it's absolutely the coolest one around, the only forum I know where you can see ALL the new messages without reloading any pages, hop between categories without reloading! It's just that it's about time some of the things which were a great idea at the time but then remained unused are moved out of the way. So the newbies aren't confused (and yeah, some of us, if we accidentally click on something we haven't clicked for years).
>
>I'm taking this as a suggestion that a spring cleaning is afoot. That would mean it's spring - which I'd really like to see finally coming. We're still on december temperatures around here.