This month we're going to put some extra effort to improve our forum experience.  One of the big things is the move to a clustered server back end which should dramatically improve the performance of our sites.

Below is a bug report on some of the things I've run across on our forums recently.

#1 Number of users on the forums

The forum statistics don't make any sense to me.  I know there's a lot more people on these forums than that because of the sheer number of responses.  I'd like to see either this statistic be all forums combined or removed entirely as it's not really interesting stats.

#2 The editor

This is the editor I get.  I think all users should get this rich editor too. Yea, it's possible to abuse it but I would rather err on the side of having a better forum experience.

#3 Quoting

In the stardock.com forum at least, when I quote something, I am still losing the carriage returns which is extremely annoying.

#4 Avatar images being weirdly sized

Some types of avatars aren't being resized correctly making the page look funny.

#5 Editing of comments

The forums are very inconsistent about editing a comment.  I think the general rule should be that anyone should be able to edit a post within say 10 minutes of their original writing. Period.

#6 User Profiles with more info

Overall, the forums have come along nicely. If we can get the speed in forum commenting that you get when commenting on blogs, that would be a big step forward too.