1) When there is a private message, make this very clear at the header of every new screen.
For example, in the header bar, make "Check Private" red, bigger, flashing, if there is a new message. This way, real time conversations are already feasible
2) if you do not do this, just make some place holders, some $variables where people can insert their custom made text in certain places, for example in the header bar
3)I asked this before:
to have a few additional pulldown items,like "sex", "age", or "operating system", or whatever.
Alternatively, if you allowed total customization of the "Post icon" pulldown menu, that would help. I find these categories you offer totally useless, I would rather put my own categories in there (for a dating service it could be marriage, relationship, sexual adventure, pen pals, friendship, gay, kink, phone sex, etc.). Or on a travel board, there could be a country list in this place. Later this should be integrated into the search form (show only posts seeking marriage), but this is easy to hack.
Ideally, there would be more than one such pulldown list. Rather a flexible number of them. But just the one that is there, with a customization option, would really help
I would also like to have an option for the "Post Icon" to output text, instead of the icons (it is hard to make a bunch of new icons)
