I have only joined 2 months ago but I have spent enough time in the forum to notice one thing which is a big problem in my humble opinion. I believe the feature where you have to reply to a thread to view it is not good for the forum. The reason is that the same old threads keep getting pushed to the top because of the constant new replies which ends up drowning out some really good HQ threads that don't have the reply-to-view feature.
I believe use of this feature must be regulated more thoroughly. Liking to view a thread is okay but replying to view bloats the thread unnecessarily with useless replies. Moreover, genuine, authentic, thoughtful, higher quality questions, answers, discussions get drowned out in the noise of "thank you" "let me see" posts which don't really add any value.
Just my 2 cents. Would love to hear what Admin and Mod team thinks about this.