I have to agree.
This forum does have the great fact that everyone reads all the posts as they're in all together but that has a lot of downsides.
Suggestions for improovements get lost in between bug reports and just general comments or chit chat between forum members.
Bug reports for v9 get read by users just coming to the forum who then wrongly get the impression that v8 has a lot of bugs in it.
Searching is slow and tedious and returns results that are nothing to do with what I want.
I did a search yesterday and it literally took around 3 minutes to complete and that's on a 512 kb/s line. The page returned was huge and would have logged up any slow connection and computer and the results it had weren't particularly useful to me. I ended up just browsing the forum instead.
Things like sticky threads for you to make important info stay at the top, forums for v7, v8, v9 beta, fast searches which return valid results etc.
These are all things that will be hugely welcomed and the size of this forum is growing FAST. I come here a few times a day and even so the number of new posts is usually reaching the end of the page.
The forum's growing fast and I think it's time it advanced