Now that I've played with the options that are there, I don't see any great need to change anything: If you want to find out about something specific you can do a search (including searching for your own name, if you want to find all threads you contributed to); If you want to read only active threads, you just click Mark All Read each time you exit the forum; If you want to see all the old threads, just click archive. I'm on dial-up, and haven't found it particularly slow. Having the + would be nice, but there are other things that I'd rather were sorted out first.