I've not been here as long as some others, but other than the @ and voting buttons has MN actually altered the forums in any significant way in the last 20 years?
I appreciate that some people like the simplicity of the site. But even if people don't want the actual functionality of the site to change, surely they could see the value in clicking a smiley or clicking a bold button, as apposed to having to manually implement these?
So TLDR: What's changed in the last 20 years?