Am on a similar boat, I simply find the boards that combine different categories of threads into one page and have an infinite scrollbar on the side to jump to different points in time in the thread instead of pages (like discourse) very confusing to navigate.
It may be nostalgia but I spent a decade perfecting my navigation skills through such forums, and I don't see an improvement with the new ones.
I don't think it's just nostalgia. The bizarre, not quite phone, not quite PC monitor infinite scrolling design of these neoforums is awful, and far worse for effectively finding and cataloguing info.
My thoughts as well, when I think "forum" I think hierarchical subforums full of threads listed in last-posted order. I do not like the modern tagged jumble of threads style like Discourse and this, and I hate the fact that so many companies in particular are removing long-standing classic forums in favor of this junk. Especially because as usual they're half-assing the migration so years or even decades of history are just being lost.
