Would be a column on the forum page, that as well as giving the time of the last post, also gave the name of the last poster? Add it to the list I suppose...

Yeah that would be a good idea actually.. I concur!

I'm not sure, as clutter is already an issue (for me).

The forum and topic columns could be amalgamated. And i think a last poster column is more useful than an author column. I know what you mean about the clutter though, it's starting to look like one of my spreadsheets :$

Very much so. I'm also not entirely keen on the colour scheme from a HCI perspective. Aren't orange and mauve a bit close on the colour wheel? I always thought opposites were supposed to be best?

Golfpro, you never struck me as a man that would know his colour wheel;-). Trinny and Susannah would be proud.

So what colour scheme?

Nice feedback guys, ermmmm let me think......

or just make the Last Post column read something like
Soarous @ 16:38, 26/08/08

Hey Pete, that's worth a star isn't it? (I can't recommend myself!).

Hmmmmm, look what this has reduced us too...grovelling and scrabbling around for every star possible... :$

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Cheers Pete,
nice job with the column integration on the front page, looks a lot cleaner.
Will be nice to have private messages soon too.

Another feature I thought would be useful would be to have peoples subject, institution or achieved education level instead of the nice looking but essentially pointless info that says:

"Member Type: Standard
Total Posts: 43
Joined Date: 14 Jun 2008 16:53:18
Last Login: 10 Jul 2008 22:41:33"

How about some boxes to fill in on the 'Account Info page' so that it read something like

"Member Type: PhD (Current)
Total Posts: 43
Subject Area: Human Geography
Institution: Uni of Bham"

I will pass your comments on, thanks

Not sure having your institution on is a good idea or not as some people like to have a certain degree of anonymity on here. Although having research area could be a good thing :-)