@Nandemonai: "Also, I can't believe I forgot to mention this before - but there's another reason why traffic to this board is so low. It's not linked directly from www.jastusa.com." Yeah, I thought about that, too! The current state of affairs with the forums (new and old) reminds me of that quote from the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie: "buried in the island of the dead that which cannot be found except by those who already knows where it is." LOL. Well, it's probably good for them to get things ironed out better before going public-er with it.
@Nicholas: I think what Nandemonai is talking about is the tendency of big pictures to "break the frame" and go off to the margins on the right, taking associated text with it. I'm attaching a screenshot ("breaking into margins"). It looks that way in both Internet Explorer and Firefox. I don't use Chrome -- it may well be showing up just fine in that browser. The other place I've seen this happen is on the "School Days" pinup picture you have on the "Ne, Ne, Oniichan" topic.
Also, I thought of another small feature I'd like to request, though it's more a matter of laziness on my part than basic functionality. Do you think we could have an option to proceed to the next page on a topic on *top* of the page as well as the bottom, like in the old BBS (see pic: "top-of-page navigation")? That feature allowed users to navigate through a long topic quickly without having to scroll to the bottom of the page each time. Again, not major, but if it's possible to re-implement it without the boundaries of this new software, that would be handy.
@Peter: Aww. Well, send Shingo our best wishes when next you hear from him. Tell him to raise his childrens up right; buy them "Aselia" as soon as they're old enough to read!