I concur Noel, I have raised this in the Admin area.
One thing to remember is that the forum is currently running off the default "skin". So there is room for changes/enhancements in many areas yet.
There was notice given via Announcements, perhaps not everyone read it.
Emailing everyone could potentially bring down the site (55,000+ emails), so we have to rely on that really.
Overall, the stock/factory skin is bad. But this will be altered