Wedge

Imagine for instance a homepage with some large text that welcomes you, as in the 'flat design' trend if you will, and then at the bottom, a list of recent topics, recent commits, or something. If you're a regular on the forum, won't you want to get rid of the large text, and get to the real contents instead...? I know I would. For instance, I'd like for my 'recent topics' tab to get at least 20 entries by default, not 5. Things like that...

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Yeah the thing I was mainly getting at was that the menu structure when you are in an admin item pretty much allows you to get anywhere, from anywhere. And most things are logically laid out, although I did lose some items occasionally.

You can always find them back with the admin search engine. It's been improved in Wedge, but it's also in SMF.

I'm imagining that I would have checkboxes at signup time, default being checked off, saying something like "Try to find my Facebook friends here" and "Get my user data to fill my profile automatically", or something. If checked off, it ensures Wedge asks Facebook for as few permissions as possible. I know I tend to shun logins when an app asks for more than I'd expect from it. I just want to post something in some specific topic I'm interested in, dummy, not create a full account of my life and spend my days talking everywhere!

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Infinite Scrolling?

Well, I don't know... Just look at Google Images, or Facebook, Twitter, etc.
http://wedge.org/pub/7704/infinite-scroll/ <-- that's when I started working on the feature. It was brutal... I'm expecting Wedge will be the only SMF fork to ever do that because it requires a lot of jQuery internal knowledge. :P

Also an Elk, if you're planning to do so.

So far, it's just you and Xarcell. But to me, that's 2 above the expected number of complaints.

It's not 'hidden' or anything. There's no policy on wedge.org to prevent from posting links to the competition.
Plus, as I said multiple times, I'm in good terms with them, and if disaster should strike me or Wedge, I'd recommend people switch to ElkArte 10 times over a switch back to SMF.

They also have the ONE feature I want in Wedge but can't be arsed to develop myself or even import into Wedge and credit them for... 'Post from e-mail'. I want that! Of course it requires a cooperating mail server, things like that, but I've always loved that kind of feature, and when I first started using a self-hosted forum back in 2003, that's one of the features I was longing for. But because PHP doesn't support that from the start, it's not possible to do it without bridging with the mail server (which Elk does, although last I heard, that feature was under-tested so it may not work at all.[1])

1.	Yes, I have yet to install Elk because I don't want to be influenced by competition too much, so I'm only speaking from their feature lists and regular random looks at their commits.

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This guy.

This guy is just a visual clue that 'Home' is a link to the homepage...
If you'll look at the HTML for it: there's a span for the icon, and then there's the menu entry that can actually be highlighted. If I included the icon in the menu entry, the currently selected section would have the icon inside the selection style (here at Wedge, it's a greenish background), and it implies that the icons need to be comfortable on *whatever* backgrounds you throw at them, and the Wedge icons (taken from a popular package), while very efficient, don't look as good when shown on a darker background.

Believe me, I've always put a lot of thought into my design decisions.

However, I never considered the possibility of doubling links in the menu. Or, come to think of it, simply add a small click handler to the icons, so that they'll follow the same links as their text entries. Okay, I'll do that... It won't add too many bytes, I guess.