I noticed over the years here at SHS that many topics across the forum groups are very outdated, and do not reflect the current changes. Most forum groups on here seem to suffer from this. What I propose is that all outdated topics be archived for all developers to look at past problems, and give the forums a clean slate, and up-to-date information for all mods currently being hosted on SHS, especially BGT's compatibility list topic because there has been many changes since 2012 judging by the date when I read the topic. This problem will only continue to grow, and cause future users on here to be very confused on what is what. I know in the end this is just a pastime hobby for most modders here, but there should be some consideration for the players that play the mods. I believe any topic that started some years back will need to be moved to archive, and any information that is still needed should be pulled into a new topic to keep it up-to-date as of 2015 as a way to tell players/modders "this is what we have done so far, and what is currently still in discussion". As of right now the topics are entering as I would like to call ancestor topics, and need to be removed, and allow a more-up-to-date topic be made in it's place if there is still something that needs to be discussed/work-in-progress/what is fixed/what is not fixed/etc.
Also I'm sure the pinned topics should be refreshed if certain information is no longer valid.
Because my goodness, alot of progress has been made since 20XX to 2015.
Such a plan of this magnitude would probably create a small disruption, but I believe it would be worth it for everyone involved.
Also at this point I'm going to try to help out on what is currently trending such as for example the mini-quests for BG1 over at G3 forums (because there is a new beta version currently in open-testing that has not been mentioned on here yet). I guess in a way I would be the news guys that helps keep everyone informed. I will have a dedicated topic to it, and post occasionally. It's a small thing I'm willing to do because I love you guys, and the mods you all make.
Also I really urge the players, and testers to start grouping the bugs into one dedicated topic that way the devs can keep up what is going on with the mods, and see what other mods is not playing nice with it. It would save a lot of time, and probably alot of headaches for the devs because they will have all right there to look at. (Given there is a few topics like this, but it needs to be put in practice more).
I hope I don't come off like I'm trying to run the place (which I'm not), but it's just concerns that I had for these forums for years.