I don’t know for you, but compared to the old forum and many other forums, the Elektronaut forum is very slow. It needs longer time to load pages, and this makes the browsing not smooth.
In the old version, the way the site handled the visited topics was by far more efficient. Here, it seems that the only mean to tag a thread as read is to click on “Scroll to first unread” (which is also triggering a slow reaction).
Yeah, this forum feels more of a chore.
Yes, viewing this forum on iPad is a horrible experience. Ex: try to open a topic in a new tab…
I used to be looking forward to viewing the forum at the end of the day. Now I often cant be bothered: to much frustration. 
Lets hope that it will get better over time.
And as you said: great boxes.
The more efficient & focussed content of 5 years ago was simply because of the small and strongly connected user base driven by the creator, Ryan (RIP), an unprecedented enthousiast.
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For me, the magic of this little ‘cocon’ has disappeared - the downside of a fast growing company/user base ?? Not blaming Elektron - they have to move forward as a commercial company - but the ‘small village’ mentality seems to have evaporated.
Spot on emnine.
http://www.elektronauts.com/t/change-forum-software/1103
My view on this above. Change the software for the forum to one of the standard forum motors. Focus the development time used for this forum on integrating whatever Elektron-features needed instead of creating a new forum software from scratch.
I’m really struggling to think of anything that i prefer about this forum to the old one. Big elektron fan, have three boxes and would have more if I could afford em. But I feel like I am almost giving up on the forum in its current state. As per the title, it is just not fun to use.
They should get a good UX designer the visualdesign is pretty cool, but the user experience is very … Optimizable
I agree with nearly every negative aspect mentioned in this thread so far. The new forum really is subpar. It also doesn’t help that it’s not a common forum software that many of us would be familiar (and ok) with.
On the positive side, it is nice that the elektron guys post here more often from what I can gather… that’s about the only positive side 
“too cool for school”, “a triumph of style over substance”, “all pants and no puff” are some phrases that spring to mind - they could seriously replace this in a matter of days with some cheap open source kit and some willing minds.
But on a positive note those rounded gradient reply buttons are pretty damn sexy…
^ this, and maybe use some of those resources to answer support tickets. I filed a ticket a few days ago and have yet to get a simple acknowledgement.
However, I don’t know how this forum was built. It may very well be built on top of a forum engine, heavily customized / skinned.
I hate to agree but do
What was the point of changing it? Why?
It’s slow clunky, and I had to re-register for no reason. Reminds me of the harmony central disaster.
I like the new forum’s look and feel, a forum activity tab is also there (I don’t need much more), but I’m quite bored of the range of topics being discussed at the moment. new machines, a lot of wishes what the machines should do, people selling gear, the same noob questions over and over again (replies differ, though, which can make those threads very interesting).
Where are all these “discover the scope of elektron machines” kind of threads? sandbox posts with white noises, a4 synthesis tricks etc. however, there’s still enough interesting “ground noise” (1 thread within 50, mostly OT-related) to have an incentive to at least frequently read through the forum.
Come on, let’s discuss more about workflows with the machines, new approaches to live sets, special tricks, sandbox stuff etc.
Pretty much feel the same as the OP, I think there are much less posts per day compared to the old forum, possibly because posting is a bit of a chore? Also the styling, whilst quite slick is very different in looks to the Elektron site/image.
I do hope that Elektron will continue to improve it, some of the features are very nice, but also we lost some stuff like post stats, and the ability to click on the last post in a thread, seeing previous posts when replying etc.
+1 w/ everything said. seems mostly form that doesn’t lead to function. the search functions stinks. i have better luck google searching for content.
sorry going to have to agree, this forum is terrible
music is just a hobby for me, tech is the career and forums have come a long ways over the years
the old standards are still good, vbulletin, ipboard, etc etc…
however, there are some really nice ones now…no need to invent your own or use something inferior
check out discouse:
or if you have some dough, check out lithium:
…at the very least, fix the search function, that would make things fine IMO
i love this forum and love coming here reading all the threads, browsing users profiles, listening to their music in the play bars
here and there it could be better
but without it I wouldn’t be where I am now after 1 month of A4 (and a bit more MD)
keep up the good work and time the admins invest and biiiiiig thanks to everybody who shared knowledge
peace and love music lovers
btw: thanks fixing the search function
Completely agree with OP on all points. Elektron-Users, although old, was just fantastic to use compared to this.
yes, it definitely helps that the search is fixed now