It has clearly had an effect on posting too, at least from my observations. It used to be on some of the threads (president thread, or any thread on the hot topic of the day) if I wasn't on the board for a couple days, when I returned I would have to go back 2, 3 or sometimes more pages to catch up where I left off. And that was with 50 posts per page on my settings. Now, some of the threads that appeared to average 30 or 40 posts a day seem to get 10. If that. I know little to nothing about the technical and software issues at play, but the forum is clearly much worse now than before. I find it hard to believe the people running the site cannot find a way to return some of the functionality and look it had prior to their "upgrade." The only other board I post on has periodically undergone some changes, but other than in appearance it functions today almost exactly as it did 10 years ago. I find it hard to believe this place can't so something similar.