What's wrong with the new forum design.

Thought I'd kick off the list here.
1. O.P. can award a correct answer to themselves.
2. Status stays hidden unless checked, making it hard on both newbies and those trying to help them
3. No advanced search (that I can find) I've given up even trying to look, and users aren't even aware of it
4. Difficult to see what you have or haven't replied to
5. Can't see very far back in the threads
6. Huge waste of space on useless quote bubbles
7. Trying to edit your own settings takes you round in circles
8. Where is the forum how-to and guide?
9. Absurd to ask users to search without a suggested list to work from, the Pages iPad users are constantly landing in the wrong forum
10. I hate the default of sending email advisories and Safari messages of answers in the forum. My Mail Inbox is inundated and I am getting constant pop-ups interrupting my work on my Mac.
…many more but I'd like to let others add to the list
BTW I give 2 thumbs up to the improved post formatting options, but that was a long overdue catch up to other forums.

Don't have time to answer all of this, but here's a start...
1. O.P. can award a correct answer to themselves.
Useful when they've come up with the correct answer themselves. (OPs can't award themselves points, though.)
3. No advanced search (that I can find)
https://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa (or click the blue Search button in the top right of any page without entering any text in the search field)
4. Difficult to see what you have or haven't replied to
The equivalent of My Posts is here:
8. Where is the forum how-to and guide?
https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/index.html
10. I hate the default of sending email advisories and Safari messages of answers in the forum. My Mail Inbox is inundated and I am getting constant pop-ups interrupting my work on my Mac.
https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/email.html
Good luck!

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