Hey GP I ave a question sicne your under Hals wing more than ever dose that mean you'll be getting more help in managing forum code and updates and such?
I would hope they could dig someone up to do alil bit on the front page code, a reply and quote system would be handy!
Frankly I do not see why you can't do soemthing like this
[url]http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12567.cfm[/url]
merge the blog and the forum if you will , as you can see it is a nice and neat system.
However I know they use their own modfied forum code for it and bandwith is a issue here...but I was wondering if you looked into having the blog connect to the forum that would save on so many things and normal mods could patrol the comments and such.
What I am getting at is now that the ECA is "helping" you can try and get together with them and plan out a better vision for the forums and blog comments.