How can the Elgg developers enhance their interactions with Elgg users? Comments, questions, and discussions encouraged!!

Forums, forums, forums!!!!!

Why in the world are there no forums here?

Take this from an 'elgg' newbie standpoint, though I am in no way new to working with systems online.

Seriously, it would help organize things so much better than having hundreds of different groups spread all over the place. I mean cmon.. if I want to talk themes, I have to find the theme group, if I want general questions, I have to find the general group, etc etc etc...

And then don't even get me going on looking up my history LOL.

I spent over an hour trying to find an old post I made my first day here. Search returned nothing, it's like the search function doesn't even realize there are groups on elgg.

Tags do nothing either... click on anyone's profile tag, and you get an empty page, still  can't figure out the logic there.

I understand that groups have their place, but seriously, is there anything better than a well setup forum for tech support dealing with users?

I run probably a dozen very large forum based websites, and with just a few clicks I can find pots I made years ago. Some forums even let me choose plugins where topics can be set as resolved/not resolved so I can simply go in and check the unresolved posts.

I'm not knocking elgg, as I am slowely coming to like it a lot. I'm just saying if you want 'real' interaction between devs and users, this whole group thing needs to get dumped quick....

I'd seriously love to hear from the opposing side, as to why in the world a multi-group help type system here is better than a well setup and run forum....

just my 2c... after the last hour of futily in looking for an old post to see if it was answered or not