I've been fair and patient, GameSpot.  For the most part, I like the look and feel of the website since the most recent redesign.  There are a lot of useful features, and I've had good opportunity to make use of most if not all of them.  That said, my patience is wearing thin, and there are certain problems with the GS Community and Forum features that have been left unfixed for so long that what were once minor nuisances have become almost infuriating.

#1.  I can't directly access my own profile 99 times out of a hundred.  Instead, I have to work my way around by clicking a link into someone else's blog, and then click into my own blog through the link to my most recent entry displayed on the friend's list.  Even more absurd, I can't directly click into the entry itself; I have to click on the link to the page that will let me view replies. (i.e.: 0 replies, 1 reply, etc.)

If I try to click directly into my own profile, the page will not load the vast majority of the time.  The black background and gray borders that serve as a backdrop to the actual content will appear, but no actual content.  No banners, links, text, or graphics.  Refreshing has no effect, either.

#2.  Threads in the forums break frequently, probably more frequently than they did two months ago.  Sometimes, a thread won't load properly and I'll receive a white screen, or possibly a white screen with some garbage code along the top.  Others can apparently see and reply to these threads just fine, but for some reason, it won't allow me to.  Rarely, and I mean extremely rarely, refreshing will fix this problem, and I'll be able to read and respond to the thread, but this becomes particularly obnoxious when it happens to a thread that I wrote and posted myself.  Even worse, this occasionally occurs in non-forum related pages, such as reviews, news articles, and feature stories.

And to top it off, here's what I really don't get.  I have a fairly new (November 2005) Windows XP computer running the latest version of IE on a dial-up connection.  This is not some crazy independent browser like Firefox that could cause the occasional compatibility issue.  This is a standard hardware/software package that any website with competent coding should be able to handle.

So really, GameSpot, after having all this time to work out the kinks in the redesign, why does your forum and community functions still perform so obnoxiously?  Neither of the previous forum designs of yours that I've used (dating back to Lithium) were so bug-filled.  These problems I keep encountering are unacceptably frequent, and they prevent me from fully enjoying website features that I would love to get more use out of.

Rant over.