OT doesn't bother me at all. It doesn't take that long to dip in, skim the first couple of posts and decide you're not interested.

I would certainly like to see the use of forum software that keeps live threads at the top. Sometimes you can go back 5 pages and find a thread still very much alive and kicking, that most people probably haven't read for days.

IMO Free Stuff is the area that really needs a makeover though. OK it doesn't generate revenue directly, but I'll bet it's what brings most people here in the first place, who then go on to buy stuff in the MP. People should be able to rank and leave comments on free stuff, as they do gallery images, and the ability to order search results by those rankings should be added. Try thinking that most newbies come here in search of freebies, as I did, referred from the CL or e-on sites and have a look at the FS area as most people's first experience of this site... get the idea?

John