I agree that a MUSIC forum and a NON-MUSIC/politics/absurdist forum is not entirely a bad idea. But I see why it is a bugaboo - how to make the divide? Do you only allow Stones? Only allow Stones + Music? Stones + Music + Random Dadaist Nonsense that Makes RO RO? Stones + Music + RDNTMRR + Politics? The board as it existed was an excellent conglomeration of all four of these elements so it's hard to figure where to draw the line.
I agree with Mac - I think that people are still posting in the old style, and not taking into acc't that there are no more archives. The search system is actually pretty good - in fact the whole home/help/search/members/favorites/profile nav bar at the top of the page is pretty useful. It's early days and we all just want RO to work like it did, but hopefully people will slow down a minute and bother to learn the new system, and THEN start abusing and mutilating it for everyone's amusement.
Is there a thread per page default count for YaBB? NOVOGATE posted 25 threads a page and we're currently displaying 20, which makes for stuff falling onto the back pages too quickly, which leads to more new topics being posted, which leads to the clutter that LJ is quite rightly not digging.
Edited: OOOPS! I see that this topic is covered in an earlier thread! SORRY!
But of course, in order to make modifications to the system, someone has to go in and fuck with all that code, and test it, and make sure that it doesn't over-write the already growing archives, and then explain how it works to everyone, which takes goddamn time, and is totally frustrating, and pays doodly friggin squat. If we all bother to work together rather than just giving up in frustration the MB can be modified and worked on to make it someplace we all like to come and get Stoned and have fun.