I am making a wide range of usability and feature updates/additions this week

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

More theme options might be nice. Or if there's a way to set our own colors, I missed it.

There are a few obvious sock puppets on this board...one even giving wrong advice to new members in the RUB forum.

[웃 910]

You really need to add a lot more emoticons. At least 50 more.

[Captain Hammer 113]

Clearly anybody who wants a larger color pallet is a sock puppet. Maroon.

Yes, maroon would be a nice color.

[^_^ 5,021]

Captain Hammer's bona fides have been vouched for repeatedly by site moderation. Why do you insist on making it an issue?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Captain Hammer's bona fides have been vouched for repeatedly by site moderation. Why do you insist on making it an issue?

We miss you, AJ. You should come by and visit more.

[^_^ 5,021]

We miss you, AJ. You should come by and visit more.

What's amazing is that you accuse others of trolling

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

What's amazing is that you accuse others of trolling

Moi? I am just a crazy old coot that craps his pants when he sees traffic, n'est-ce pas vrai?

[sciencenerd 56]

It'd be great to have the timeline feature adjusted so that it could more accurately document folks who came over without a visa. My wife came over as a tourist (Canadian - no visa or VWP required), so I put "other" as the visa type since you are required to put something. "Other" is described in the timeline as entering on a nonimmigrant visa and filing for AOS. If I put in the POE date, the immigration checklist shows we went through NVC, Consulate, and interview, which we did not. If I take it out, it just lists approval, but it's approval for an "other" visa, which is not really accurate.

Also, in the timeline, it would be nice if the "submit review" link next to the interview date was removed once you have actually submitted a review.

Neither of these things are a huge deal, obviously, but thought I'd suggest them since you asked .

[SMOKE 1,426]

More theme options might be nice. Or if there's a way to set our own colors, I missed it.

You really need to add a lot more emoticons. At least 50 more.

i like both of those ideas.

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

Above comments noted.

Updates already made worth noting (many other minor tweaks):

-- Timeline listings enhanced with member profile avatars. Flags for countries added.

-- Monthly Filer Page enhanced with member profile avatars, follow icons/links

-- Reviews (consulate/local/poe) enhanced with member profile avatars

-- Reviews (consulate/local/poe) minor cross browser compatibility fixes made

-- Individual Review listings for Consulate/local/poe revised with updated look and member avatar.

-- Homepage enhanced with member profile avatars

-- Homepage cleaned up. News links moved to the left. Popular topics moved higher. Background images on right boxes added. welcome text revised (shorter). Country list moved above member listing.

-- Review section(s) layout revised and broken link(s) fixed.

-- Backend software updates for various software

-- General cleanup of 'vogue' timeline entries... fixed obvious entry errors for dates.

-- Review cleanup (minor) on vogue entries

-- Consulate Information Page Cleanup. Width extended. Links revised to Portal for Country Flag.

more updates to come...

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

-- Portal Page Updated (looks in general on top and right)

-- Review Sections width increased and limited to max size (with browser resizing)

[Rebecca Jo 1,962]

How about cleaning off the garbage advertising?

[rsn 135]

How about cleaning off the garbage advertising?

I'm guessing the site would not have any funds to operate without the ads.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I'm guessing the site would not have any funds to operate without the ads.

DING! DING! DING!

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

I'm guessing the site would not have any funds to operate without the ads.