Thinking about this... the blame squarely is on my shoulders for this forum falling behind the new generation sites with fancy tag-driven javascript sites.

We were one of the first forums which had professional moderation back "in the days" when tech support on the net was just starting. Since, those days the world has really progressed, as far as internet resources, forums and tech support networking sites go. I am amazed at the high quality of YouTube videos from tech experts on every new subject under the sun.

While the world was rapidly undergoing this revolution in online tech support, I was busy on other projects and let the forum fall behind. Also, a lot of our members did not want us to change, but ironically those members in the past who did not want the site to change, are not posting here much anymore.

In my view, we have little choice but to modernize the user experience; and this means the front end client side experience, not necessary the back end.

For years, I looked at other solutions like a CMS or WP or other forum type of UI for the front end, but those all of those suffer from the same "bah humbug" feeling; and all the new tech support sites which have exploded past us in popularity are custom built, tag driven, javascript based sites.

Now I've been examining the latest and greatest, trendy areas in Web Development, and thinking where we should go next.

Also, I noticed that over the last two years, when I was busy coding in C# and Unity 3D for my cyberspace SA project, I let the site down with regard to keeping up with the latest trends in meta tags; and so we dropped in search engine rankings.

I'm trying to make up for that now; and so everyone's ideas and suggestions are very much appreciated.

We really need to create a more interesting user experience; site which has more "wow" but in a good, clean tech way. Instead of breaking the site as it is now, I have decided to rewrite it myself starting with getting rid of the 10 year old legacy table format which restricts the site. I'm making progress; but have a quite a way to go. We have so much original embedded table tags, that even when I add frameworks like Bootstrap Grid or CSS Grid, things break due to the table tags.

If I had of done this hard work years ago, we would be much farther along, so it's clearly my fault the site has fallen behind the times in the modern world of frameworks, HTML 5 CSS 3 and all the many modern Javascript frameworks, IDEs and other development tools.

It's exciting to review most of them; and so I think it is a good thing to now be focused on modernizing the user experience.

Exciting times for sure!