You'll have to forgive me, but I've been a software tester for many years now, more years than I've been a triathlete in fact. Just like I can't stop working out, I can't stop testing software, so here's what I've seen from my first trip through the new forum. btw: I'm using IE6.

- the white lettering on the grey buttons makes it look like the button is disabled.

- I got a runtime error on my first post when I pressed Post Reply (I had not previewed the post). I then previewed and was able to Post w/o the error. I didn't bother to debug it.

- in the Main Index view, I do not get different colors for viewed and unviewed links. I guess you want us to use the icons, but it would be nice if we could rely on such a standard web metaphor.

- adding a seperator between the post and the auto-sig would help distinguish it. Some auto-sig's (Utan for instance) are just a text block and it ends up looking like part of the post when in fact it isn't.

- As Frank Day mentioned in the old forum, it wasn't very intuitive when I'm staring at a logon screen, that I need to follow the link to Sign-me up. better error text on a failed logon, or a better progression for first time (no cookie?) users could help with this.

- I was unable to login w/ the "Remember Me" setting checked. Having never logged in before I just thought I was in. After struggling for awhile to find my profile, I realized I wasn't actually logged in and eventually tried w/o the setting checked.

that's it for now. of course, as a tester, I'm used to the fact that all the bugs I find don't necessarily get fixed. Keep up the good work, nostalgia aside, this new forum is pretty nice.