Just some friendly advice from a long term forum transient, but I wouldn't get your hopes up on the improvement thing, clairerise. The folks here like things the way they are, and are the kind of people easily threatened by a change in the status quo, be it politics or the forum management.

Many folkies are like that. Once something happens more than a few times, it becomes "tradition" to them. And nothing is more sacred to that sort of folkie than "tradition". Or maybe that should be Tradition. Or "Tradition" (tm)

Anyway, there are at least two kinds of folkies, the ones who worship tradition and the status quo, and the ones who try to subvert, upend, and overthrow it.

This is really a traditional status quo kinda place, visited often by the latter type folkie, because...well, as I've admitted before, it's kinda like shootin' fish in a barrel.