I'd be wholly in favour of a more conventional structure and format for Mudcat.
I'm used to it now, but I remember the first few times I came here.
I would pick up a link to a lyrics search and be confronted by a long list of threads.
Click on one of those and again, a long list of posts- but any actual discussion might be pages down the screen. I never found them the first time, and did not come back for a long time.
I regard myself as a long time internet user- I first went on the Net, over twenty years ago, when it took several minutes to download a short text message. Even so, I found Mudcat a strange relic of those days in the way it harks back to the Usenet Newsgroups- so long ago that I have not thought of them for ages.
I would think it would be a great step forward to upgrade the structure of this forum to include the facilities of a modern bulletin board at least, with social networking add-ons from Facebook and MySpace as available.
And to all those who complain about notification emails- I'd suggest you check the help files and find how to turn them off.
This is a social network- can't you tell by all the sniping and snarling that has gone on in this and so many other threads?
Or is this an example of an anti-social network?
Cheers
Dave