Its really not that bad. But admittedly we were all spoiled by the old forum which was superior. This one will take some getting used to but it will never be as good as the other. This is a commercial forum, run by another operating company. LVA literally, I think, bought the package of the other company so the forum would run on the other company's servers. Thats why its faster. Unfortunately, with these "forum companies" you have to use their formats and variations are minor from the templates they offer. LVA really had a good forum set up. Sorry its gone.
What I am really concerned about is did LVA also give up the potential advertising revenue that they could have had with their forums? I know it is primarily a publishing company, but a lot of money was left on the table with their web traffic.
But so far things are not going bad -- traffic for lasvegasadvisor.com is up over the past 7 days according to alexa.com so I guess the head office isnt missing the forums that much. That tells me they really dont care.
So we have to do the best we can with what we got.
Ya know, whats really important is US and not the format.