I'm pretty sure IE is still the most popular browser. The link you posted has pretty much zero relevance as well. It is the percentage of people using browsers who are visiting that one single website. The site itself even has a disclaimer saying their average user is obviously more clued in about computers and so it isn't representative. 

Edit: This site seems to take data from search engines which I guess would be fairly accurate. Shows Chrome has in the last few months taken first with 32.43% compared to IE's 32.12%. While firefox is quite a way behind. So yea like I said that link of yours isn't very relevant. 

One would naturally assume such a thing, would they not? And upon researching it, it turns out I wasn't too far off. Chrome just recently (May 2012) pased IE as the most used browser worldwide for a full month. It had pased it before, but never for longer than a week. The difference is less than 1% between the 2, and Firefox sill lags behind IE. However, stats taken that same month based on unique users still has IE way ahead of both Chrome and Firefox with 54% to a meager 19% and 20% for Chrome and Firefox repectively.

http://mashable.com/2012/05/21/chrome-is-tops/

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/06/01/chrome-overtakes-internet-explorer-as-most-used-browser-for-the-first-full-calendar-month-ever-statcounter/

Back to my orginal point, though, it is ridiculous for any web site to function as poorly as this one on IE, and I say that as a Chrome user first and foremost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

EVERY SITE will be regarded by you as being on a downward spiral from the moment you join. It will have peaked on the exact day that you joined. This is because more people join, the community grows, older members leave and you no longer feel at home.

I will, however, grant you that the missing features are a problem. Rest assured that the entire mod team is unanimous on wanting the Prediction League, the charts and the IM back. But it's not our decision, and ioi is busy with Gamewise.

Really dude? I was just saying my experiences from what happened when I got here. Dont judge me. 

VGC, Dutch football...there are always ups & downs.

It's worth me saying that, although it's trivial to click "upload" once you've found it, it's not trivial to find the upload option. That is, it takes a good 5 minutes of searching to find the right page.

Also, the problem with site speed isn't about the speed of the computer, but the way that the internet operates locally. It takes a good ten seconds for me to load up vgchartz when I first visit after booting the computer (once a heap of things are in cache, it's faster).

Funny, when The Wiire Boards were still around, I joined in April 2006 (revolution report, at that time), and the forums peaked somewhere around mid 2008 (and before anyone draws any connection to the Wii, I'll point out that the decline began when the owner started screwing around with news formats, leading to the editor-in-chief and the main content-writer to both leave).

If people are reacting negatively to the site changes, it's not because they're resisting change, or that they think things were at their peak when they first joined.

The sales data has certainly declined, at least for free users. I remember the good ole days of the top 200 games every week, comment section right under them, prediction league, etc. Now I really just use this site for the forums, which still does the job. I can't really bear to look at the sales data too much any more anyway these days, far too depressing.

I wasn't aware that Chrome was the most used browser now. Glad to see it because it's by far the best browser out there.

This does in no way change the fact, however, that IE is a massive piece of shit.