I'm looking forward to this. Touch wood. Most times I try to improve things they immediately go wrong in ways I hadn't expected and don't understand. Changing strings on a guitar is about my limit. But Max isn't like that.

Most of the things I'd have asked for seem to have come up in this thread. In most cases they are on the way, it seems.

I've always wished there was some way of getting a snapshot of the Mudcat on some particular date. Time travelling, so to speak. Then we could see if it's true about the Good Old Days. I suspect it isn't practicable though.

NO, this is not possible because of the original (non-linear) design of the Mudcat. While you will be able to filter on a particular date, messages posted later to those threads will show up. Threads have dates AND Messages have dates and its difficult to have them cooperate.

The other thing I'd like us to have would be an ability to use the filter more selectively. At present you can choose to show only BS: threads, for example, but you can't use it to not include BS: threads, or whatever. Maybe with something like that people might make more use of the prefix system, and the effect would be that fewer people got grumpy about various things. (Well, sod them - but when they get grumpy it messes up the watering hole for all of us.)

I worked on this before, I'll see if I can incorporate it into the new version.

And thank you Max for having made this site the only one of its kind that is fun and easy to navigate. Well, the only one of its kind, actually. (And that's without the coming improvements.)