Bob: thanks for the feedback on forums. I'm collecting all this great feedback on forums and notifications to put together a plan of action within the next couple of weeks. All of these packages are fairly new, and I was expecting these growing pains.
Quick comments on your comments: subject link - sure, we should fix that. readable style - there's probably better than table. Some people might be really annoyed to have no more width than 500 pixels if that's what they want. Last post: yep, we need to work on that. Format: we can't auto-detect, because sometimes people will add HTML to describe the HTML they're using, not to have it actually interpreted as HTML. We pretty much have to make it explicit.