To be honest, board traffic has been declining for years

And we have received a ton of feedback over the years that potential new users don't sign up because of how old and out dated the board has been so we're trying to modernize without totally losing the threaded views we always had. It would have been MUCH easier for us to just download an out of box forum like 99% of other forums and call it a day but we tried to maintain the history of the board. Forum software like the original UHND forum software simply is not built anymore and honestly hasn't been for years.

That said we are open to incorporating feedback along the way.