I have a few forum ideas.

• Subscription option, to be notified when there are updates or posts to your threads.
• Notification next to your name when someone replies to your post. It could hold links to each topic if there is more then one notification.
• Highlight the Category and Thread where new posts or reply activity is made.
• An option to PM other members(this is especially useful for sharing an email address with someone, so that its not broadcast to everyone).

All noted in my to do list!
Man, you give me a lot of work to do for after my holidays 😉

Don't worry, I've been keeping notes, I have a list for the workshop I haven't posted yet. No worries though, enjoy your time!

I've enjoyed tinkering with the wonderful thing you've created here.

Also, I said I would help anyway I can, so there's that.

Hello,

I'm back from holidays and I started to add features to the forum.
So far, you can use a bit of BBcode, emoticons, embed images, youtube videos and mecabricks models.

I'll make a post to explain how to use all that.

As one of your suggestions, I highlighted (bright blue lego icon) the categories and topics that haven't been read / where new replies have been posted.
It only works if the user is logged in to the website.

wouldn't have been easier to just use some already available forum software? i'm just curious, developing a whole forum looks like a big job, and time removed from mecabricks workshop etc 😃

It was the first option but I never really liked the different ones I tested. It's always to complicated, too long to set up, too many options, etc. I just wanted something simple where I don't need to spend 5 hours when I want to update the code. This one has been written in 2 days and is fully integrated with the rest of the database and website.