After hanging out a bit too much in the forums for the past few days, I have one tiny problem. Right now, I have to use a Firefox addon (Check4Change) to see when a new post is added. Couldn't this be something that the forum software provides.
Here's what I have in mind:
There's a server provided url for each forum containing the timestamp of the last update. Something like this.
1. The client saves the time of the last click every time it occurs (and gets rid of the alert).
2. An open forum page fires off a request on regular intervals. Since these requests are tiny this could happen fairly regularly, like once a minute.
3. The server returns the last modified time for the forum.
4. If the returned time is after the currently saved "click-timestamp", the window title is changed to include a notification (for example a "(+)" in front of the forum title.
P.S. Reloading the page when there's anything new probably wouldn't be a bad idea either :)

The forum software here is sorely lacking in otherwise standard functionality. However, the GOG team have stated that a major site update is coming (as I recall, they actually said "before Christmas", but I may be mistaken), and part of it should be several new additions to the forum software.

Actually, that's the only thing I'm missing, what do you?

Last poster, for one thing. That's usually infinitely more interesting than whoever started the thread, which is all it's showing right now.
Also, more formatting options. It seems weird that there's bold and underlined (which nobody ever uses), but no cursive. Lists would be nice too, as well as embedded images.
I have previously advocated switching to standard forum software, but GOG insists on coding it themselves. While I respect their decision, I do not agree with it. Forum software is not their core competence, and as such, should not be something they devote a lot of their time to.

Cursive would make sense, but I'd really leave out inlined images... that's usually asking for trouble as lots of people have a very strange sense of humor (also, scanning a thread that consists mainly of images is just no fun). Worst combination is images+signatures!

Yeah well, some people have no sense of moderation. Never mind, we at least have hyperlinks and attachments, so we can have images. We just can't have them inline.

I personally like the no embedded images, scanning a text board is far nicer than just seeing a shit ton of insane pictures like on other boards. Also I feel comfortable reading this forum when other people are around and not like I have to be hiding something.