In reply to Christee.

Thank you Jeff for shining a bright light on alternative ideas about the plugin directory here. Hopefully someone is listening. The plugin directory is a functional tool and visual appeal is only a part of its mandate. Improving form should improve functionality and not detract from it.

Paal's ideas about functionality are great. More powerful and more personalisable would be ideal. Not all users are identical, hence the tool (plugin directory) should be powerful enough to serve us all.

Great idea Christee about improving support search. That would be the just kind of improvement which would make WordPress publishers' lives better.