I've recently been on the Spacebattles forums a few times, and noted one really neat feature over there that I honestly kinda miss on this forum. Specifically, their 'threadmarking' system, where various posts in a thread can be marked and allows for easy browsing between those posts. I can admit it would probably see the most use on the various Forum Games and Roleplaying boards, allowing for the Game Master to easily mark off turn posts so people could directly browse between each turn post without having to scour the entirety of the thread, and the DF Community Games and Stories, where the turn posts of succession games or installments of the stories could be marked so after reading through one you could instantly go to the next important one if you wished, but there are likely benefits for other locations as well (Toady using the system to mark each time he replies in the Future of the Fortress thread so people can look between them easily, for example). While some people do provide lists to turn posts in the thread OP, or in a secondary post, it does take a bit of time to keep updating that, so there are many that don't do that, and going between individual threadmarks is both quicker and easier to both browse between the important posts and to set up the marking of the important posts.
After a bit of musing on this topic, something came to mind. I'm honestly not on too many forums, so there are probably ones others have seen that I haven't. So I ask, what features on other forums have you seen that you think could improve this forum's software? I don't expect Toady to actually change over the forum software due to the hassle it likely would be to do so, but I figure it could be an interesting bit of conversation to see what features people like to see on forums.