[Danny Stewart]

Yet more new features. I've now installed EasyFeedback, which you probably noticed with the little [+] feedback system at the bottom right corner. This is just a quick and painless poll to see what members think of the new forums. It goes away after you vote the first time.

Forum home announcement. I can now add announcements directly to the home page of the forums, instead of binding them to specific individual forums.

Welcome headers. This is a little box that pops up at the top of the page that encourages guests to register, unconfirmed people to confirm, zero posters to start posting, and people who haven't posted in a while to keep posting. Just a little motivational thing that hopefully will result in some activity.

Thank you hack. You all have probably noticed the little "Thanks!" buttons that appear at the bottom of other people's posts by now. Sometimes people just like to say "thanks" for a bit of help that someone has given them or for uploading something that they enjoyed or anything like that. A lot of people probably don't want to actually take the time to post when all they have to say is "thanks." And a lot of other people don't like all the meaningless posts that are attributed to bunches of people thanking one person for something so small. Now, to solve both of those problems, all you have to do is click the little "thanks" button. Then, that's a nice way of keeping all the thank you messages nice, neat, and together, and, as an added bonus, the reputation of the person you are thanking will go up five points. When a user clicks on the button, it places his username in a box right under the post saying that so-and-so says "thanks" for the post. Everyone who clicks is placed in one box. Thanks to this nice little extra feature, the forum will look nice and organized, but people can still be polite and say thanks if they feel like it. With this, everyone should be happy.