1) I can't read the top three menu choices, because of the color choice. They have too little grayscale contrast for me to see. When hovering, the contrast is a little bit better, but not much. In IE, I can click and drag to select the text and get the background to invert. That make me able to read the text, but this trick doesn't work in Firefox.

2) Would it be possible to get the new layout to keep the memory of read posts, instead of showing everything as new?

3) When I write this message, every single character I press results in the screen display to jump. The width of the text input box widens a bit, resulting in all layout being updated. Then the layout directly returns to the previous. But the flicker is very annoying. This tested with IE7. Doesn't seem to happen with Firefox. I think that it is your Javascript code to remove the Post button when new text is added that results in this problem in IE.

4) Could you make the menu remember that I'm in the forum, so it is possible to switch between the normal forum and the chat with a single click, instead of first having to click "Message Forum" just to expand the sub-menu?

5) Do we now always have to preview our post, even if we don't have any formatting that would be meaningful to preview? At least from the Keil forum, the experience is that people who can't get formatting correct will still not bother to look at the preview. They just click "Preview" and directly continue with the "Post" button. On this forum, there is always the "Edit" in case we do miss a markup. By the way: The preview show on the top, but if this is a long text, I have to scroll past the preview and past this input box to get down to the Post button. It might be an idea to show a post buton either on top of the preview, or directly below the preview, to avoid the scrolling.

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6) When looking at posts in a thread, IE only shows a red cross in white box instead of icon for "good post". In Firefox, there is no indication at all that there is a missing image associated with the post. See last post (03/Nov/08 10:47 am) in thread http://www.8052.com/forum/read/159552

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7) Is it intentional that reading one post should mark all posts with earlier date above as read? From a couple of quick experiments, this seems to indicate that in a threaded discussion I may walk through one branch of the discussion and at the same time mark another branch as read, i.e. to not miss a post we are forced to read the posts from top to bottom, even if branching may interest me in reading the branches in another order.

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8) When clicking on someone elses name in a thread, it is possible to get a list of the last 100 posts by that person. Why not us get links to our own last 100 posts from our account page?

9) I wouldn't mind if you could add one more time format: "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM".

10) Draging the mouse above the count of online users at the top left of the display pops up the list of current users. But the close button is to the outmost right of the display. Maybe the popup could auto-close when the mouse is moved out of the box? Right now, going a couple of mm too high with the mouse button when trying to select something in the menu requires a need to traverse the full display width.