Hello new admin,
I have to admit that when I entered the site and saw the new front page image(the boat on the sea) I got shocked and thought that the site got hacked or that the the previous admin woke up from a nightmare and remembered he was supposed to maintain a certain website.
I would like to suggest season images for the front page, maybe changing every season (or month), of course images related to that season/month. Also, bring back the previous image.

>Potentially merging or closing some of the older boards (highly debatable — I would prefer to keep them active, but a few may be beyond saving at this point)

Please don't close boards, or if you really really need to, then at least put them in read-only mode for history/archive purpose.

Good luck.

>>5
Seasonal images would be cute.

>>3
I'd strongly support merging/closing some of the boards. There's way too many of them relative to the size of the userbase, and it just makes the website feel dead. Obviously, archive them first.

Please a way to stop people to constantly bump old, and for all purpose archived, threads.