This forum is antiquated.

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.

Yeah...change is hard. 

It didn't like the changes Facebook forced upon me. But, I adapted while complaining about it. It's also free...monetarily anyway.

It's funny that people complain about their privacy while on a smart phone or the internet.

You want privacy? Get a walkie talkie and a map.

I was involved with the current design. The developer was not that experienced and, as best as I could tell, was a one man team. Issues like including imagines, easy quoting of previous posts and being able to name external links  were discussed but he was not interested in implementing them. I got the impression he had limited time to do the new site and, as I said, did not have a lot of experience with the site.

After this version of the site was released, there were some who left in a huff and usage fell off for a while. But, it picked up again and is pretty healthy these days. Why is it healthy? As many have said, it is because of the people on the forum and the knowledge they bring. Yes the mechanics could be improved, but it is the people that count.

The current format was implemented in 2015. Here is a link to a post on the likes and dislikes.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/new-format-dislike

And one that is a little more direct

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/new-forum-format-sucks