Bit late to the party, as I only saw this thread today.
Search in date order - 100% agree thats needed, nothing worse than searching for a common phrase and having to go through 10 pages before you find what you are looking for.
I wish the reviews were looked at a little more, I know its a lot of work, but when there are numerous complaints it would be good if the reviews got a warning placed on them, not saying change the review completely, but, as an example, look at Dr Vegas, there are still complaints about extremely slow payouts, this has been going on for at least a year, could a warning not be popped into the review, just a line saying 'forum members are reporting withdrawals are taking 7+ days at times'. Not picking on Dr Vegas but there have been other cases too, like GUT's recently for example with their poor customer service, I know that reviews been updated now though.
Also, this is extremely annoying to me
As is the social media panel on the other side, theres been loads of times I've went to click over there and hit it by mistake.
Maybe to prevent the spam, put all new member posts into the moderation queue, even if it requires an extra couple of mods?
Apart from that there isn't much else I would change, but the search to me is the most important