This is a very minor suggestion:

I participate in a few other online discussion boards that use a layout similar to that of Wordorigins. A few of them use the convenient device of repeating the hyperlinked breadcrumbs shown at the top of the page at the bottom. ("Forum Home > Wordorigins.org Discussion Forums...")

As I said, this is minor, but it’s mildly annoying to see that a new entry has been posted, open the topic, scroll to the bottom of the page, discover that someone has written, “I agree with what X said” (or worse, discover that it’s spam), then have to scroll up to the top again to return to the list of topics.

And, yes, I know I can use the Back arrow, and I could go on apologizing for bringing up such a trivial matter, but I’ll just say that--assuming it doesn’t require too much effort for you to set up--it would make an already pleasant experience even more so.

Thanks. Good suggestion. It shouldn’t be hard to implement.

Perhaps not so easy to implement, another improvement would be if, when going to a thread that you had already visited it could drop you right to the first unread post in that thread.

That I can’t do. I can do all sorts of things with the format of the page, but the programming logic for the forum is beyond my control.

I figured.