Okay, lots of questions.
* I'm still trying to figure out everything here myself.
* All of the styling is in CSS, so yes, I will probably make this board look more like the old one between now and Christmas.
* I haven't even gotten started on the header templates yet, so yes, the logo will link back to the home page of the board, don't worry.
* I don't know about keyboard friendly formatting, but there are a number of "packages" (hacks/mods for this board) that are meant for phpBB migration. I'll look into them later today. I know you can hit alt+s to submit/post or alt+p to preview, and I think there are some others. I'll have to check out the help.
* I liked the Karma idea, but it's easily turned off if people don't want to see it.
* Most of the new features, like the Calendar, Birthdays listed on the home page, and Karma and stuff, I turned on just to try out all of the new stuff. I expect we'll find a lot of it useless and can get rid of it later.
* For some reason this board handles user ranks that aren't tied to post counts as user groups. It's a little maddening.
So some people have titles/groups and others don't. It'll list every title/group that you have under your name. I'll be slowly and manually re-adding people's custom titles to their profiles soon.
OR
There's an option to let people choose their custom title in their profile. Is this something we want people changing at will?
* The "new" icon in the thread sections will take you to the posts you haven't read yet. I don't know how long it leaves things unread, and can't seem to find any options here regarding this.
* I'm still figuring out user groups, and am not sure how this board handles mods and such. As far as I know, it should work. But it's all tied to the user groups and there are a LOT of permissions that can be set for each group, including the mods group. Like, 100 different things that admins can let mods or users do in each forum and stuff. I like the added controls but maybe the defaults are a little too restrictive. I mean, is there ever a reason to NOT let someone edit their own posts? Or not edit them after XX number of minutes?
* I could probably re-word any board messages by editing the english language file. No problem there. I like "___ wrote" better than "Posted by: ____" too.
* The stars I don't really get - it's supposed to be tied to rank more than the title is. I didn't see a way to turn them off completely, but I think I can apply zero stars to everyone at once if I needed to turn them off (the admin section is AMAZING).
* I think you can turn off smilies in your profile.
* I don't know what "ninja edit" means.
* The nested folder thing was an option and I immediately hated it. I almost reverted back to the old board before I found a way to do in-line links there.
* Editing the footer was a real chore as it was stuck/hidden in some PHP file for the source code of the board, and not part of the template. I know they want people to keep the copyright notice, but shit, don't they think people may want/need to add their own stuff in the footer?
* Idle time right now is an hour. You'll have to let me know if it resets read posts on you or not. I can pretty much make idle time up to 999 minutes, but that messes with the "Who's Online" option.
* Do we like or dislike the showing of who's online on the bottom of the forum home page?
* Does the spell check work?
* Do we like smilies? I do, but I can actually turn them off completely if we need/want to.
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