And the number of posts per page is inadequate at the moment - odd there's no per-user preference for this (or seems not to be)?

The one (only?) benefit I can see of having a custom forum (such as this) is that you could put stock prices for the relevant shares in the sidebar as part of the template. A ticker even.

I think there is a lot wrong with this forum software: - paging through results is very tedious - it tells you that there are unread messages but just takes you to the start of that thread - unread counts not synced across different browsers (cookie on a per machine basis) - on a phone it looks tota...