And there is also email communication if a user wants to use that

There is NO email link on the "Online Help system" page.

Tony: my first act as a moderator would be to ban you, so I don't think this would work . :)

That's the funny part of moderation, there is no banning feature. ;-)

Carl
Could you elaborate a little on what you envision for the teaming area of the forum? I mean, crued as it may be, why not create threads in the cafe with the team name at start of the subject line, and then a topic description? I know you're probably picturing something much more sophisticated, but wouldn't that be a rough draft of what you're suggesting? That way everyone could review, and participate, and perhaps find a team more to their liking or whatever.

This isn't a social community like MySpace. It's the support forum for a serious scientific project.

No need for preview- Edit message works fine - if ya can't fix it in 60 minutes, you ain't ever going to fix it.

Can't see a reason for attachments - and the security risks are way too great

Themes? Why? You can't read this?

How else would you subscribe to a thread other than email? By coming to the forum?

How many levels of quoting do you NEED? This supports at least 6

Good grief. this works - why waste a whole bunch of time recreating something with useless bells and whistles? If people would learn to use the forum preferences to sort threads, and messages within threads, cut out images, sigs and avatars, control the displayed thread length, and the other configrable features, you'd find the forums a lot easier to use.

The current system has a great many shortcomings, to list only a few:

No private messages
No preview function
No attachments
No user selectable theme
No thread subscriptions (closest is an e-mail if someone makes a post, only useful if you watch your e-mail all the time)
Very limited quoting

UBT, I`d like to agree with you, cos I`m that sort of bloke....but...

It is obviously hard cos many of us asked for eon`s, now had we asked for something really hard like a fair points system...<whistle>

It`s lacking in sections, there should be a whacking team section where teams live within the project, instead they`re outside you don`t know what they`re doing and vice versa.

Thanks for telling. I hope he will share some impressions with us after he returns.

OK whatever dude. In the U.S. (as opposed to the UK), "quirks" means peculiar aspects of your personality. It's in no way sexist because the same applies to me and to everyone. Hopefully the people in our lives ultimately accept us, regardless of what minor faults we have.

Time to grow up now people

Time to get these people who continue beat the dead horse of backdating to Stop.

@moderators, please lock this thread, because it's only trolling to start a new flamewar!

Oh, I thought it was possible for entire threads but not for individual entries, I misunderstood that.