That thing with the 450 drivers got out of control quickly creating a real mess, despite having a simple, unique solution for almost anyone affected. Seemed like many didn’t have the slightest patience to experiment a little, read a wiki, the old forum, some lines just above others, that has to be also said, true, and too many forgot providing system specs and info, wasting forum space, time and energy from people eager and kind to help. So,
-> imo every Support sub-forum should have the sticky How to provide good information and its description below -even as a prerequisite!- , and with relevant FAQ/Tutorials stickies, Tutorials often contain good solutions (and training ofc, which is much desired for the “lazy”/ignorant newcomer who is not interested reading “dry” wikis, but could take a look into a tutorial since he/she is already there), but no one with a problem thinks about checking them in the other place (Contributions), they are simply too chaotic thematically (-> less useful, less discoverable) in their current form and place.
-> The search box is a good idea but maybe it should begin with "Search for problems/issues, […] " before anything else in that line. (Most people will come for their problems first than to search topics, users? and categories -which are not hard to miss tbh on the left anyway)
-> I would suggest a more aggressive moderating, merging all those same threads into one and maybe reevaluating the auto-locking of threads after 3 days -removing it imo. Thread could be very much alive and user should state his new Manjaro version anyway if the problem arises again and he was not in the positon to solve it with the already existing info.
Otherwise the forum is filled with very similar threads (spam) which creates a viscious cycle, newcomer searches, is overwhelmed by 10 similar threads, dismisses it, prefers to write a new thread, produces more spam, deminishing search feature’s usefulness further more.