FR is revolutionary between 1999 and around 2004. Since then its hardly one of the most successful forums in human history. A tad hyperbolic there. In fact, there are blogs more popular than FR. Techcrunch, engadget, macrumors and even Joomla forums is well above FR in success and reach.
FR has had her moments in terms of news and exposing certain documents. That is certain but lets not convince ourselves its the best thing slice bread. Maybe to us, it is. But overall, not even close.
When you start thinking of some of your users as the "enemy", rather than as blessings, you're toast.
Marketers believe the user is the best asset and a blessing. The programmer thinks they are borderline mentally disabled and works up from there. Its the world I live in. I don't mean to offend but when designing and developing a site, you need to first take the user as a moron and design around that. It makes it that much easier for the real user who is more average in usage of the internet.
I think FR is extremely hard to follow and understand for a moron [insert typical DUmmie statement here]. From a usage standpoint, it needs to be made more easily understandable and have a better flow of logic.
Lots of ads and pop-ups with blinking lights, bells and whistles.
That is what I like about FR, it doesn't have those things to distract from the content.
I find those more cumbersome and difficult to maneuver and got a mega error message from one of them!
Gotta go clear my cache and cookies.