This forum is antiquated.

Simple solution: If you don't like it here, go somewhere else. Or, you can just stay here and insult this forum and everyone on it. You decide!

suggesting improvements is not insulting, it’s easy to simply ’go away’, it’s more caring to want to stay and want to improve it. After you get good advice, and make virtual friends, it is even more of an incentive to want the site to be better for all, including future members.

like audiogon, dpreview costs nothing. However dpreview occasionally asks for suggestions to improve the site, gathers together this and that, revises the site.

I imagine it started somewhat primitive, made incremental changes over the many years. I've seen a few revisions since joining in 2012.

I believe this is no contest for voting or not, imagine thumbs up or down or anything else, in the end all would stop writing and use emoji. Funny picture. Then the usual question would be, "what ?".

iirc just a few months ago the forum was down and problematic for several days... at that time, if i understand correctly, there was a major system update being done

Isn't there ENOUGH social media sites with meme, like buttons and gold ribbon awards? 

Let the Instagram/Tik Tock 'ers adapt. It's enough effort ignoring the know it all's/chest puffers here.

Leave Agon be. Use Agon as it is, or go to the other sites. Learn to use all the existing features.