In a recent update by Gaile Gray, it was stated the forums are going to be improved and re-organized. I have two personal requests in relation to this and I hope others will post here and second this:
First: Please don’t fail to fix the search tool! An enormous amount of posts and duplication would be eliminated with a decent forum search tool! This tool is both necessary and easily possible! As someone who has built his own search engine before, it is not so difficult to do, and certainly Anet is well capable of building one without spending much resource to do so, so please introduce a reliable search tool for these forums so we can reduce waste on topic space and keep things organized!
Second: More features for topic posting. I would like to see polls available to players so we can finally contribute polls to get numbers on what people are interested versus not interested in. For example, I would like to create a poll to identify the most favored new class for GW2 based on a list of classes, the most favored new weapon to be added to the game, and the most sought after feature, and it would be very easy to represent this in a post that uses polls to represent numbers.
I could list some other things, but in my own opinion, these two are the most important improvements we can make to the forums to make them readable and easy to follow. I do also recommend archiving all the posts prior to the update as we have so many old posts it would be more useful to start with a clean slate then leave thousands of topics lingering in a fresh new forum.
