What browser are you guys using who are experiencing problems? I ask because I'm currently on my Netbook using Chrome and get no noticeable increase in site loading from the chat, and this is just a single core Atom with 1GB of RAM. So it may just be an issue with your web browsers not liking...
I think the problem is more having a sole thread dedicated to suggestions, a single suggestion post can be hard to miss during discussions; a forum might be better for getting heard. Make a new thread per suggestion, which means discussion of a certain suggestion does not drown out others and we...
Surely the rules of MD just need to actually be enforced so that mature discussion does indeed take place, as you said should be the case? Removing MD would just have the threads that would be in MD go into General Discussion anyway and without the additional rules that come along with it which...