Forum organisation

Hi,

A suggestion for the forums:

It could be a limitation of Drupal, in conjunction with hardware resource issues, but these forums are not very easy to navigate and lack a lot of navigation features I find in other forums (eg vBulletin-based ones).
As the site grows and more postings occur, these navigation and organisational features become more important. Simple things like:

• Viewing new posts
• Mark posts as "read"
• Adding the forum name to the Recent Posts list
• Options to view topics in either threaded or list mode.
• Also, while the look&feel of the forums is consistent with the whole site, it does appear a bit lifeless and staid. I don't think the forums need avatars, but easier ways to format texts / enter smilies would spruce it up a bit!

I also think the Development forum needs to be split-up into "Official" (portableapps.com supported) and "Non-Official" (community contributions).
This is to try and help situations where the same app is being worked on by JTH and someone else (ie SumatraPDF). I gleaned from other posts that this is something that will happen eventually, but really needs to happen soon as this site becomes more popular.

Cheers,