Two minor things that spring to mind to improve this forum:
1. Emojis/emoticons like on the student room. They can make the forum look more fun and inviting; just bc we are doing PhDs doesn't mean we're boring. Plus they help with tone.
2. Option to delete your comments, again like on the student room. I triple posted on another thread here and there's no option to delete mistakes lol.
I agree to both. Even BBcode would great so that we can make the text a bit more interesting. Though with deleting posts, can there be a time limit like a day to delete posts, to stop people deleting all their posts.