The advantages of a number counter
Please note my post here if you have not got a number counter like Streetlife had.
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Also the forum topics boxes need to be higher up at the top of the web page. This is because when you post using the "top of the page" subjects or "post button" there does not cover everything. For example how would a person know to go half way down the page scrolling down there to find the other topics e.g. this "Suggestions page". This is even more of a problem on a small monitor, laptop where you'd have to go down even further. I am pretty computer literate and visit many forums and it is not very often organized lower down like this. Just trying to help though. Cheers.