I'm not really an IRC fan... to the point that I don't even enter my site's chat section... not even once per annum. Have seen a lot of hosts explicitly ban IRC on their servers though, so that was the first thing that came to mind. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Funnily enough I thought about the 'shout box' feature before making my previous post but then sort of figured it was like an "extra forum" type of feature, though very chat-style if I may say so. Maybe adding one of your server-efficient chat modules would be a great addition to the shout box?

I guess it all comes down to scale - when people's sites grow they tend to not only want better hardware (often dedicated servers because that's the only way they can continue to function), but also more functions. The chat feature seems like the next best thing, especially since the login/password data really needs to be matched up in order for both to work side-by-side. Can't see any way around it...

The multiple-login detector would be nice, but understandably it won't be useful for those who aren't bothered with ghost/clone posters (a real problem when it comes to contests...). Still a very useful security feature to completent IP identification for those who need it, and although I don't think it's necessary at all in 1.0, it would be nice to see it included several months down the road from the first release...

The character encoding issue has been a bit annoying, especially when you have people who are used to Classic. Suddenly this throws a whole new problem at them because all of a sudden they can't cut&paste comfortably or post special (in some cases rather usual) characters with ease. Just seems like one of these things that Classic had worked out to perfection... but only became a problem after moving to Threads...

Graemlin ordering is a nuisance because it's not fun to set them up "the hard way" due to their different sizes and shapes. At least please allow for post icons to be set up in a certain order, as those are interestingly enough set to a certain pattern/order on most boards.

To clear up the "space problem", what I mean is that when posting a reply if you use the URL function (in UBBCode) then in your message a _space_ appears both before and after the URL itself. This is just a formatting issue and some people like it while others don't. A similar situation appears with graemlins - when including them by clicking on the appropriate icon you get a space before the icon but not after it in the message box (I believe UBBC included a space BOTH before and after the gif). It's just a question of personal preference, but I've noticed that some people get annoyed with the differences between different bulletin boards as well as their personal preferences when typing up posts.