User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Introducing New Moderator Opportunities For Community Administration/@comment-1738746-20160116043732

Perhaps instead of focusing development on moderator groups, the forum module that they're meant to moderate could get some attention? As someone who has designed, created and admin'd forums for over 10 years, I can say with some degree of confidence that the forum module is very poorly designed with a lot of gaps and room for improvement on there. I think the module was designed with minimal usage in mind during a time when it wasn't used so much or regarded so highly, but as the years progressed, it's become a large part of most wikis, mostly because it's the best way to build community from.

Instead of showing "active" topics, more attention can be given to topics still open (if moderators are doing their job correctly, all open topics are active ones), as well as give a clear distinction in board view as to which topics have been closed and which are still open (this benefits both members and mods here). More pressing is giving adequate moderation tools to forum mods- the ability to use their tools straight from the board view to lock or move multiple threads at the same time. The implementation of archival and sub-boards would be huge as well, as well as the ability to sticky threads in boards.