Would be nice to be able to search the forums for a topic that may have been covered already.

I third that! I also find it annoying that after commenting on  thread you have to search through them to find it again. It would be nice if there was something similar to Facebook that notified you when someone commented on the same thread or allowed you to track threads you had commented on.

 

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