the whole new fourms work a lot better and are more streamline than the old ones we had, the old forums were super out of date and didnt work and keep up with the rest of the site as it updated (lets not even start on the moderator side of the old forums, it was pretty bad, these ones have lots of ezpz buttons) these forums load and run fatser and have a ton of more functions like being able to hide annoying threads you dont want to see, they contribute to the planet minecraft exp system so forum only users dont miss out,

feeds dont default to active, it defaults tothe last one you were on, mine defaults to new as thats the bit i use lots, i understand what you are saying about the drop page, but feeds were decided on so they worked with the planet minecraft profile system (although i still want the drop page to be the table of contents)


certain catagories were moved/merged/removed because they no longer made sense or were not being used,

minecraft help still exists (minecraft/help)
server help was sort of merged with servers and sort of merged with minecraft help (minecraft/servers) (minecraft/help)
server recruitment was merged with servers to keep it all in one place (minecraft/servers)
general help was merged with general (disscussions/general)
shops and requests and requests were merged and renamed Workshop (minecraft/workshop)
recrutiment and teamwork was renamed to teams to generalise recruitment for anything, not just minecraft related content (minecraft/teams)

the whole forums now run on community input on threads instead of who can spam on thier thread the most to keep it up the top, now you can find out the top voted threads, the actually active threads where people are posting/talking etc



if you have ideas/ways you think could improve the forums the feature request ticket section is always open for new ideas :)

In certain ways I agree with what you are saying. I feel like now it is more of a nuisance to explore the forums, in numerous ways. When you are looking for a specific category you have click, wait for the page to refresh with the drop down menu, pick a sub-category, etc.