Is anybody else completely dissatisfied with this new forum?

Just a thought, but why not just restore the old forums and use that as a starting point? The new ones are so broken, it does not seem like there is anything about them worth keeping.

Porting any new messages back to the old forum should not be too difficult. There has been essentially no traffic since the switch (see attached). If you exclude messages complaining about the forums, there are only a couple of hundred in the months since the change.