Would be very useful to have an announcement thread, that would display in all forums, or perhaps all forums that an admin chose.
This would enable the admin to get important info direct to the members - who may well ignore a 'news' forum, but may well take notice of a special sticky thread in the forum that they visit.
Apologies if this has been mentioned before - but it is frustrating when I visit other forums, using poorer software to find this essential feature as standard.