As many of you know, this Forum just came back 0n-line - and this was
DEFINATELY an unplanned outage & software/hardware upgrade. In short, Sunday evening, the main Forum server started going over the sunset.... So, I tried to band-aid it - but it didn't work...
Soooo - I bought a new server Monday AM, built it up, installed the OS - and then tried to bring the code over into late last night through the early morning hours...
Of course - the "old" code didn't run - so I had to use the code from my development system that included many of the features you see here...
Anyway - I just stuffed the new server full of RAM - so it will be up for most of the day (I hope - it depends on how it is acting)... Still on my to-do list.....
Rebuild the Search archives/engine;
Port over the Avatars
Fix a few bugs I'm seeing pop up;
and then -
get some sleep 
Best to all - and I apologize for the outages yesterday and Sunday night....!!
Also - some of the new features (there are about 30 or so...)...
Quick Reply;
Spelling Checker;
Preview Posts;
Jump to new posts;
"Printer Friendly" views (so you can print out/mail an entire thread);
Report a Post;
User Avatars - and link to custom ones;
User can select their own password on Registration;
Ability to automatically "Thumbnail" photos in your threads/posts;
Blah - blah - blah.....
And a bunch more....
John D.