I feel the EXACT same way!! It's just too fast to have any meaningful discussions, unless you remain glued to the ongoing chat. The moment you step away and come back to "50+ New Messages", it's just not worth scrolling back and trying to digest everything that's been said while you were gone...

So, two problems I have. One is predictive words on my phone usually lead to words being mashed up with other words when I select them. It usually happens worse when you move the cursor to a different spot in an already written sentence. Even when just typing normally, moving to another spot to fix something leads to this problem.

And two, which isn't that big a deal, I seem to remember when you refreshed a page it would usually refresh and take you to the last post you were looking at. Now, it refreshes and leaves you at the top. Again, not that big a deal, just annoying having to scroll back down and find the last post you read.

Well, you can have disagreement with moderation policy - and then take that disagreement directly to CGI or Ryuu. They are MORE than agreeable to hearing criticism when it comes to this area, and (so far as I've seen) are open to modifying policy if appropriate. Saying you think the moderation sucks and that's why the site is going to die, isn't really helpful. And while I know there have been problems in the past, those types of problems always seem to come and go - yet this site continues on.

Point is - try to be a solution to the problem, rather than just a problem. 

I'll be totally honest - I mentioned to CGI just the other day, having a forum with zero "bad guys" is actually not a good thing. Sure, it seems like everyone is playing nice and all, but things will definitely get stale. The truth is (and I'm willing to bet it applies to a large majority of people here), the biggest douchebags are usually the ones that cause you to sign-up in the first place, so you can join the conversation and call that person out. To this day, I still remember the exact reason I joined - it was because of a user named @Monty (I'm sure some of the older people here like @kirby007 or @RolStoppable remember that ass clown) - but he was exactly the type of user who would currently not exist on these boards for more than 24hrs today, and that's actually a bad thing. Because without forum foils, things tend to get boring, quickly...     ...NONE of this is to imply we need jackassery around here and temporary bans should always remain available. But perhaps perma-bans need to be focused exclusively on spammers and those posting extremely offensive stuff. 

Anyway - this is delving FAR DEEPER than I want to get involved. Just know that CGI and Ryuu are always paying attention to this kind of stuff, and I have no doubt that if you would raise your concerns (in an intelligent, non-combative and non-insulting way), your concerns would be heard and addressed.

Hey...that was why I signed up.  Except it was a user named Kwaad.  I wonder if he's still around and just switched names or something.

Remove NSFW but not Politics?! You're a madman! :o 

There isn't much left to merge since the last time boards were merged. There's a necessity for certain sections to exist because it allows users to filter boards according to their preferences. Tito:

1. Can't change anything about Gaming because the breadth of topics in the most popular category on this website justifies the five different boards. We already got rid of the commonly ignored Online, MMO and Mobile boards.

2. Sales and Latest Charts can be merged into a single board because the volume of threads doesn't require the current distinction.

3. Website Topics is already a single board.

4. Off-topic can see General, Movies, Music and Sports merged into General, but NSFW needs to remain its own thing for the sake of filtering and the same holds true for Politics. It's understandable that most people don't want to mix entertainment with politics; the forum filters are the easiest method to please the biggest amount of people.

But unlike TomaTito, I don't expect any increase in forum activity from merging boards. It makes navigation a bit less convoluted for people who browse individual boards, because there will be fewer boards.