Do this to make it considerably more "liveable":
Click: my stuff at the top.
Then Select my preferences. This will bring up a preferences window.

The two relevant ones I changed for myself were:
Set the topic display mode to flat mode
Set total topics per page to 20

When done, click submit at the bottom.
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