Introducing Synthiam, in beta mode!

Anytime This is our place to hang out so i want to make sure we're all on the same page

Indeed, Much better.

Another feature I would like to see is a "Load 10 more previous comments" button.   For instance  I'd have to hit the load 126 more comments button to see the previous 6th or 7th post.  That's a lot of scrolling.

I’d be onboard with that change as well!

The "other robot" pics wasn't an issue with me but I really like the change. Looks neat and easy to figure out now what's what.

I also like the idea of the option of loading only 10 previous posts. Sometimes I cringe when I hit the "Load more Comments" button knowing I'll get an avalanche of posts to look through. It would be nice to just load 10 at a time and move back from there.

You mean you don't want to open and sift through 1920 more comments on @jstarne1 Omnibot-2000-Rad-2-0-Vacuum-Bot-421 thread?

I don't think I've ever used the sorted by most discussed drop down. It's amazing how active some of the threads are!

Old comments now load in batches and there's an option to load them all at once for extra convenience!

Nice work on the comment loading.  I also really like that we can now "thumb up" posts.  I sometimes want to show appreciation without necessarily writing a response.  That is just what we needed (although I would check if Facebook as trademarked that.  Might want to change it to a star or smile or something). I am going to go out on a limb here and ask for a few more enhancements that are common in other tech support forums and other communities.

I would like to have the site use cookies to know what comments and threads I have read, so I can click on Show New and start up where I left off in a thread and see new topics.  The way it is now, I need to remember where I was, and in active threads, scroll back many pages to catch up (although the batch scrolling helps a lot with that).

I would like to have private messaging, and/or notification if a user name is tagged in a thread.  There are some users who only occasionally participate, but  sometimes I have questions on one of their old discussions and want to make sure they see the question.  I understand reluctance to do private messaging, although many many other boards have managed to offer it, but some way to notify a user that you want them to respond would be helpful.  I personally put my email address in my user profile so that users can reach me, and so far it has not been abused, but not many users do that.

I think I have a few more, but they are escaping my mind right now, so I'll just leave these ones out there.

Alan

So much better now!!!

And I would also go thumbs up on @thethechguru if it is a possible option!!