To toss in my 2 cents after some further discussion has taken place here:
I think the worst thing for this community is fragmentation. I can certainly understand the frustration and concern, but I don't see why we can't just wait and see. Speaking for myself and presumably the rest of the mod team as well, we won't exactly sit idly by while Massdrop (potentially, in these worst-case-scenario theories) ruins the forum. We are not owned by Massdrop and I'm not afraid to speak out at any point. I value this community much more than anything that MD could (potentially, again) take from me by doing so. Yeah, this is a huge change to the forum, and we should be alert. But I think it is absolutely too soon to start splintering off and creating new pockets of community.
Yeah see, I don't like that idea that a 4 year old post goes to the top. That is a poor user experience, especially for a new user who doesn't know how relevant that post is. I posted a more detailed explanation in the other MassdropxGeekhack thread.
It's not really a poor user experience, it sounds more like a misalignment of goals. Sites like reddit are intended to show you the hottest, newest content as rapidly as possible. This makes for a very poor user experience
if you're hoping to have an ongoing discussion and develop an idea/project from start to finish, but a great user experience if you want to see the latest things being discussed. A niche hobbyist forum like geekhack would be essentially useless if it followed that format, since the idea is to continue discussions for potentially years at a time, especially in project-based threads. Not to mention media threads where you have an entire catalog of posts from the beginning, at your fingertips - no need to search for all the nice Clack pics or anything like that.
Anyway, this is a philosophical discussion that doesn't really have a conclusion, it all comes down to preferences and intent.
(I'm assuming your comment was more directed at GB-type threads, in which case yes there is absolutely room for improvement, but I don't think it requires an overhaul of the entire forum structure)