What defines a 'hot' topic? The number of replies or the number of views? Either way you can sort the topics in either direction (ascending/descending) so you can have your posts sorted in whatever 'hotiness' direction you wish. Does UBB have any topic sorting capabilities?

Anyway, the trend of UBBisation of WWWThreads worries me, as the UBB interface was something I was not happy with (that's the reason I've looked up w3t from the 2.6 days). The burning folder is just another example of a 'feature' that duplicates existing information and bloats the product. There are some aspects of the W3T user interface that I don't agree with but that usually involves design incoherences regarding fonts/tables/icon placement.

I'll stop here because anything further will get personal ;