1. I don't see any benefit to listing the names of all the people who have posted to a thread, at the beginning of the thread. Yeah, I know, you can click on a name and go directly to that posting, but I never do that anyhow. On the rare occasions when I want to look for a particular person's posting, I can always use my browser's search function. You could omit this list of names, save space, and I would never miss them.

2. It might be nice if very long threads were somehow divided into sections, so if you wanted to read just the most recent postings, you could go directly to the last section, and not have to load the whole thread. It might be nice if you could just load one section of a thread, and on that thread there would be blue clickies that say "go to previous section" and "go to next section." You could divide them into groups of, say, 10 messages, and the blue clickies could say "previous 10 messages" and "next 10 messages." Or you could divide them by the day on which they were posted and they could say "previous day's messages" and "next day's messages" or "today's messages."

3. Once I view a thread, the color of the thread name on the main forum page changes from light blue to dark blue. That's fine. But why doesn't the color of the thread name on my personal tracer page change at the same time? Could this be fixed?

4. I agree with Campfire's suggestion, that it would be nice if we could retrieve a certain person's postings on a certain date, or range of dates.

5. Could we standardize the use of delimiters with search arguments? When I'm looking for a certain phrase, it's natural for me to enclose "the phrase" in quotes. However, I can never remember whether I'm supposed to uses "quotes" or [brackets] or or whether different delimiters cause different things to happen, or whether different delimiters are needed for DigiTrad as opposed to Mudcat thread search, or…

6. If you could somehow fix Spaw so he could only post one message per day, we would all be grateful. I might even start looking forward to his postings!

7. Other people have suggested that Mudcat be divided into music and non-music, and I sympathize with their frustration because I have felt it too, but it seems you have already provided us with the means to separate music from non-music (or whatever) by the use of prefixes to thread names. Trouble is, you can't force people to use them. You can't force people to think up meaningful names for their threads. Lazy people and newcomers will always create threads called "please help" or whatever. But of course anything you can do to ENCOURAGE people to use prefixes and meaningful names, would be welcome.