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

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?