I'm interested to hear what the readers would like to see as improvements to this forum.

I'm going to shortly enable avatars... what other features would you like to see?

We should be able to more easily see the threads that we started, or threads where somebody has responded to us.

You can do it on the profile page, but that's not very convienient.

Having a "My Threads" link would be good.Easy access.

Icons for new and unread posts. Honestly I love phpbb forums, but that would be a big undertaking to install and maybe too bloated for this site.

I added a plugin that makes new posts bold... but it doesn't unbold right away, takes a few minutes. Not the end solution, but maybe a nice interim.

I originally started working on setting up a phpbb forum, but the problem is that it doesn't integrate with Wordpress very well, and also doesn't have RSS feeds. I really like the new phpbb3 topic theme, though.

I also want the forums here to be as simple as possible... we don't need overly complicated forums with all sorts of functions you'll never use. I'd rather just implement the features that are really useful, and then leave it at that.

I think I've figured out the "my threads" thing now... gonna push up the change a little later.

You can also use the favorites function.

I find the "posts I've started" a big help, thanks

I really like the views and post tracker thanks man..

In your profile

Yeah, post views are being calculated on the back-end, but I'm still working on a good way to display them without killing performance.

bbPress is great, but some of the plugins are a bit ugly in their implementations.