You really seem to hate the way things are done around here, makes me wonder why you're still here.
Literally none of what you say is true, I have yet to see suggestions or applications ignored because they've gone to the second page, they get ignored due to a mistake, there's a reason for categories and that's so that forums staff can view their shit easier, if someone such as Chute wants to do the powerpoint for the SSRP meeting he will look at the applications made since the last meeting containing "SSRP" in the title.
This is how it has been since the forums got re-made and everything has run perfectly smooth, if I'm correct the old website had both DM's and a shoutbox, it just doesn't do anything and really isn't needed, people will use Steam if it's important or whatever, but people use the forums as it helps keep them active, most of the posts which are supposed to be aimed at one person are a joke and clearly open for the entire forum to join in on, such as if someone got a funny kill in Murder records it and puts it on the forums aiming at that person, if it's funny they're going to want to share it and make a joke out of it.
I see no issue with the way things are currently and I hope the forums do not change because one person doesn't like the fact that threads which are seen as "important" go back two pages, you need to remember they're not gone forever, they're just not the first thing you seen, if a thread is truly deemed important it will get pinned, or if the user sees their post going to the second page they have the ability to bump it.
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