agreed. most threads are contributed to by just a few people, definitely less than those who read it without commenting. this means those who are making the contributions are constantly having to ‘menu dive’ as you put it from the first page to the most current one.
also the side bar that shows the current active threads should be available whilst you are browsing a thread, not just the forums.
and a PM button should be available under a person’s profile name, you shouldn’t have to open their profile first. more frickin menu diving.
and the DEFAULT behaviour should be that receiving a PM sends an email notification, it’s not something that should have to be activated. it’s ass backwards from what is the forum norm, so I suspect people forget or neglect to activate it. that’s quite annoying, there’s definitely a couple people in the market place missing out on selling their gear because they don’t realise they have a PM in their inbox.
the ‘beta testers’ for this forum were really slacking, I hope they weren’t just blowing smoke up some html chap’s ass the whole time. the html guy should have asked at least a couple malcontents to help beta-test.