The Art of Sims Storytelling

I start with a warning, today I'm in a "cosmic pessimism" kind of mood, that today is directed against these new forums. Summarizing:

• The forums are hard to navigate and it's very easy to miss threads and posts I would be interested in reading. It too way to long to find again all the stories I was following, and the fact that the Creative Corner section is merging several formal sub-sections threads are getting submerged even quicker than they used to
• The whole forum is slow to load and full of glitches (it just logged me out when I was trying to finish this long post, and it's just the last example of a long list)
• The new "load more" layout makes it very tedious and confusing to navigate long threads and is painful to apply to SimLit, as it doesn't use chronological order and it doesn't get along well with long posts
• The threads in the "Questions & Feedback" section suggest that pages won't be implemented again
• The "load more" feature is glitchy too, and often cause the page to reload to the first post you were reading and start opening new messages all over again
• We don't have spoiler tags in replies (as far as I know), which makes it difficult both to hide long posts under a spoiler (like we used to do when posting many pictures or walls of text in stories updates), or also to hide the comments to new chapters to avoid spoiling other readers
• Custom avatars may be implemented on this template (if they ever decide to allow it), while I'm even less hopeful about the custom signatures we liked so much. The general mood kills the joy of any creative exploit! 

All this makes me wonder on the future of our hobby, which is to share and read SimLit. With this rhythm, I can imagine the activity/motivation to drop in the next few months, with less and less people continuing their stories and less and less people reading the new updates. This would really sadden me, I liked a lot the community on the old forum and I would find it very sad to notice people were quietly starting to move away.

Anyway, I'm not writing this long rant-ish post because I'm surrendering, I'm here because I want to continue with my hobby and I want to find new ideas and solutions to make the situation a bit less dire than it seems now. In this respect, the main points I'd like to discuss are:

• What do you think it's the most effective way to adapt this messy new platform to SimLit? Should we start some new thread were to post the updates to stories and legacies, start to advertise people saying to bookmark to our threads (it sounds so desperate, but...), should we start new reading circles, other ideas?
• Should we push to move more of the activity to external blogs (meaning, using the forum just to "advertise" the stories, and keeping ordered chapters and comments on blogs)? It's a bit sad, a lot of the community aspect is lost this way, yet it could also be less confusing than storing everything in here
• Should be consider an alternative (like another forum, AHQ (my first though about this forum was that even AHQ was better than this), discord (which I don't know at all), some social media (I used to have a sims Instagram, but I wasn't a fan of that community), or else)?

I'm quite in a brain-storming phase right now and willing to discuss any idea, what's your idea on the situation and on the possible solutions?