I read through all the posts, and I definitely like that most people seem to agree there needs to be better organization, somehow. There is a lot of good technical and theoretical info in the discussions, and plenty of good downloads, but so much of it is scattered about, and would definitely be confusing to newcomers as well as people who frequent the site for a while. I think that is the sentiment from several people anyway.
And it isn't specific to this forum either! I think I recently said that in a post, that depending on the forum, the "search" function can be hit or miss, and you may recall having seen a discussion on a certain topic, but most of the search results can be somewhat irrelevant. Sometimes you have to look carefully. Some threads start off as a certain topic, but evolve into something else.
Then again, the question also seems to be about the main page, not the forum? That it is rather simplistic, and most of the deeper knowledge is buried in the forums, which may or may not be confusing to navigate, depending on what you want to find? I agree on that. And some of the posts have attachments that can only be seen if you're actually logged in, so a casual browser might miss something important. Coming to mind right now are some benchmark charts involving various HDD speeds regarding eSATA cards and the like.
I guess I have nothing much to add, except I agree there needs to be a bit more cohesion, categorization and organization in both the main portal as well as the forum. I think that's the main theme here, anyway??
To get to the point, I encourage and support some kind of redesign and reorganization of both the forum and the main site!
