Some limitations

Hi Adi

Looks like you're doing a great job drumming up activity around here.  It's never easy starting a new forum off as people don't tend to get involved until they see significant levels of participation and of course you don't tend to have that from the 'off'.

*However*... I can't help feeling that you're incredibly limited by the software at the moment and that this could hamper progress.  For instance, there's nothing that allows me to 'view new posts' - a pretty much essential aspect of any forum for its regular participants.   There doesn't seem to be much search functionality either.  I can run a keyword search and that throws back results from both the forums and other places which I appear to be unable to access (presumably from other areas of the site), plus I can't readily search by user or view my own posts, etc.  I can't see my post count, view unanswered posts or do any of the seemingly basic things that you would automatically get with vBulletin or phpBB.  Until some of these are addressed, I think you may risk 'putting off' members who would otherwise regularly participate and I think that would really inhibit forum growth at the time when you most need it: at the start.

Paul