before anything else, common sense says any registered personal information such as a birthday and calculated age should be PRIVATE BY DEFAULT. this should be done at minimum for minor users if no one else. i also believe that pronouns should be optional and non-mandatory for registration. you'll definitely hear this a lot from "both ends" of the "pond." the intent is great but it sucks bad in practice.

heavily recommend a roadmap also, if not a repository for issue posting, if not a repository open to PRs, so you don't have to constantly tell people "already working on it" if you aren't going to have others implementing changes/additions.

WISHLIST (BASIC FORUM FUNCTIONALITY)

- search. search? search!

- auto-refresh (per-topic + per-board)

- beat-to-post alerts

- smart/"clever" quoting

- notification support would be goated

- drafts

- friends/foes

- page breadcrumbs

- display of forum permissions

- post editing (with diffs)

- display timestamps in local time as well as server time

WISHLIST (NICE-TO-HAVES)

- subscriptions (just for frontend and email notifications. atom support would be awesome but like. probably won't happen)

- unsure if stack will ever make it possible (probably not lol) but the children do yearn for bbcode. anything escaping this WYSIWYG hell would be nice.

- smarter images (thumbnailing large images, images in signature fit-to-height)

- usergroups.

WISHLIST (CAVEATS)

- weird that usernames have no character limits but pronouns do

- weird that topic count is displayed but post count is not

all-in-all this is a banging start and a cool foundation for some kind of "future" of central MSP(F)A discussion online, but what it lacks and the issues it has are glaring enough to make me wonder why this wasn't just built in phpBB, which a successful fanmade MSPAF clone was already made in @ https://forum.homestuck.xyz/, hosted entirely by a single individual.