> 3) Aging GUIs. Most forums have outdated GUIs which improperly scale to modern displays. They're either too compact (for an 1024*768 era), or they made a failed attempt at modernization and it looks terrible.
This is kind of paradox to me. Yes, changing UI can help attracting new users. However in my experience, changing UI will definitely upset frequent users (for eg reddit) and some of the forums that I frequently visited have this problem so much so some of them are abandoned because of this reason.
True, I guess I really meant UI scale. These old forum GUIs are fine, they just need to be upscaled. Some websites like Twitter allow you to scale the entire GUI in user preferences. The problem with open-source forum GUIs is instead of re-scaling the GUI, they try to redesign the GUI based on a misunderstanding of modern design language.
This is kind of paradox to me. Yes, changing UI can help attracting new users. However in my experience, changing UI will definitely upset frequent users (for eg reddit) and some of the forums that I frequently visited have this problem so much so some of them are abandoned because of this reason.