I see that moderators log in, but there seems to be no activity or extremely slow reactions to things like spam cluttering up threads - sometimes every thread. I have never been on recent a forum that removes spam so slowly.

Questions, such as those about the non-existent messaging system are just ignored. These questions are caused by having the envelope icon there, but no function; along with that same error message which gives no information whatsoever.

If it's not going to function, why not just announce this and remove the icon? It will save so much trouble. Obviously there are other commitments, but then perhaps there should be some other moderators who actually have the time to actively moderate?

I've seen several illegal things advertised on Lernu.