the board's problems stem mostly from volume

There's clearly lots of good sense being talked on this topic - let's hope it continues to make it feel friendly and accessible for new voices.

A practical suggestion to pick up on this point about volume: it seems to take much more time to load more than say 3 pages or so. Is it possible to automatically start a 'New Thread (Part X)' when a predetermined length of posts is attained, with links to top and tail between them?
What marginal loss might be incurred (such as, heaven forfend, straying off the original topic ) could surely be a worthwhile trade-off for quicker navigation around the site...?