You’re absolutely right, goodcatholic. The number of new threads per day, and the number of posts per day, is far too high for the good of the forum. At present, it hardly feels like a discussion forum anymore; it feels more like a social media platform, but without the ability to distinguish friends from non-friends, to subscribe to groups, etc. Just reading all new thread titles is almost too much work to keep up with – let alone actually opening each thread and reading the OP’s post.
I think what a lot of people do here is just look at whatever seems new, either in the general view – which presents topic by recent activity, which means anything more than a few hours ago is likely to be way down the list, and to go unnoticed by most – or in the “new” view, which is configurable in your preferences, but regardless of how you configure it doesn’t work well. In any case, with this approach (“let’s have a look”), the chances of not noticing a thread that would have had your interest, are very, very high. Interaction thus becomes more or less “random”. There is no way of knowing whether you looked at all threads (at least the titles) that might take your interest, unless you spend your whole day on CAF. And worse, there is no way of knowing (or making it likely) that all those who might have been interested in
your thread, have at least seen it.
Welcome to the new world, goodcatholic. Fire at will, at random targets, forget, move on. That’s “discussion” in 2018 for ya
