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exactly. Yup, totally agree. The core people who visit the community could care less about searching for something.

And the casual visitors don't need to search a ton because they came to a specific forum thread through a Google search.

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Yeah, I agree that it's the communit that makes the forum, but I have talked to quite a few members on different forums serving different niche areas and a lot of them have agreed that a reddit-esque way of presenting discussions would be better. Also, it was mostly the people who spent a lot of time on the forums that usually supported this idea.

Also, shouldn't cleaning up the presentation and making it easy to follow discussion threads heirarchically increase user engagement?

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