I have requested the new changes you now see on the site that make the forums cleaner visually. The next step is to have a lot more data presented when you mouse over an item. I know some people won't like the changes, but as someone who lives on these forums, I really need the site to be cleaner and quicker to navigate through.  

What features do you think the forums need to make them more compelling for you and for others to use?

Today we were finally able to get most of the forums back from the dead.  2 weeks ago we didn't think we would be able to bring them up.  And to be honest, we probably will never get everything back.   Fun fact: These are (one of) the oldest continuously running forums on the Internet.  When we wrote the forums, back in the late 1990s, we had to do everything from scratch.  We built these to replace Usenet. So a few things: If you're forum account is "new" ...