Signatures! Colin and I have agreed to manually append our personal info to each post so we can keep track of who posted what (since we're sharing a team account). This may be part of the solution for my post about managing "team" accounts, but I'm sure single users would appreciate it as well.

Eric Neuhaus (@donkeyspaceman)
donkeyspaceman.itch.io

As said in this thread, I would like to be able to subscribe to threads, and Markdown support would be a nice thing too :)

Also, it took me a while to realize that there is a quote formatting option, it would be more instinctive IMO to make it a button in the editor bar (or maybe add a "Quote" button next to Reply).

hmm. A Last Page link would be pretty handy, as there's a Next/Prev and First page link. I noticed this on the Introduce Yourself thread. For that matter, it might be useful to have actual page numbers to jump to specific spots in a thread quickly, but mayybe that might be tacky.

It'd be nice if clicking the links in the "Last Topic" column brought you to the latest post in that topic--the one you're actually trying to look at, haha.

Please make it so you can invisibly edit your post for a couple of minutes after submitting, or at least remove the "number of times edited" and just have it say "edited". I seriously doubt I am the only person who compulsively fixes typos and wording after hitting submit and when a post says Edited 6 times it's kind of embarrassing. :P

Separate forum user profiles have already been suggested I guess, but it would be nice if you could see "All posts by user" on a profile and a "Show new replies to your posts" button which shows all threads where you've posted that have new replies, plus a separate "All new posts" button.

^ Showing all posts by a user and "all new posts" would be nice. I think I'd also like to have a little write-up on how many active itch.io accounts there are (itch accounts that have been logged into at least once in the last month, say), how many active posters there are (active itch accounts that have posted), and the most recently created new itch account. All of this info can be unobtrusively presented in once place, like the home community page (so it's not like it needs to appear anywhere else).

At a glance, the forum seems to be more for developers than gamers. Perhaps the Itch.io community is mostly developers, but I would like to see an active dialog between Devs and Players.

A personal messaging system in which you can send messages to other users of itch.io directly through itch.io.

As another suggestion similar to the one I made previously, it'd be nice to see perhaps who's idling on the forum at any given time. That would be helpful once direct messages are implemented, or perhaps just the ability to post back and forth with people in a more fast-paced manner because you know they're there, too.

Oh, hey, I didn't see this on the first page, so maybe it wasn't suggested. @ tags so we can tag specific users in our posts would be nice. For example, in @Mark_G / @archangeltom's previous post, I wasn't notified, and this post won't notify him that I mentioned his name, either.

If possible, please add thread icons (percentage completed, done, cancelled) for devlog thread titles, like this: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?board=27.0

This way you can see the status of a project at a glance.

I'd like to suggest for Mark to get an avatar, it's a shame to see such good work maintaining the top post & just the placeholder avatar next to it :) C'mon!

Email notifications are a bit confusing.

1. Replies have the first link being the reply itself, and the second link being the thread it was in.
2. Posts on a thread you started have the first link being the thread itself, and the second link being the new post.