the site itself keeps having new bugs and glitches that make the site barely usable, features that broke due to glitches like post reactions have been gone months (or maybe they were removed because we as a community were naughty and misusing them, I don't really know) and i'm frankly quite disappointed by that, though once again I understand the few admin here are too busy to add back or fix broken features but months of having to bypass a censor to say sentences like "Dan from the show dan VS wears a black tee-shirt with white text reading jerk" is quite annoying.

the community itself is just not very pleasant in of itself, there's people here I enjoy seeing posts from but I think the forum's moderation issues feed into a poor community. like i'm sure a lot of people here are familiar with a user that's been DMing people weird shit and will type things like "mhmph!" and "meooow" after every sentence and and sending stuff that's genuinely not allowed but there's no moderation right now so all you can really do is block them and warn other users to do the same, and posts that contain topics we aren't allowed to discuss on here stay up for a long time or just never get taken down, like I can think of posts over a week old that shouldn't be here.

and I don't blame moderators for leaving, I really don't, this site needs a lot of work I myself am not willing to put in. and the adults paying to keep the site running need to get the money to do so, and the teenagers like me who are unemployed and in theory have more free time, end up leaving and there's not enough of them to fix the issues on the site when there is a moderator or two.

looking back at old posts, this site seemed to mostly be a tech enthusiasts forum with an older community, now it's a more generic forum with a younger user base (i'd say most users seem to be 15 and under) which isn't a bad thing, more of a netural observation. I think the site needs more staff and such than it did when it first was released though due to the demographic and general posting direction changing over the years, but as i've said pereviously, there's not enough people to keep the site running, mods leave, and admin are far too busy to handle the day to day moderation and upkeep with the site itself.

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hands down, I think this has likely been the absolute worst year in this forum's history. I offer no real sort of definite fix, I'm just listing the biggest issues i personally see with the site itself.