Some options in the updated forum software you may want to investigate

[Mark]

There are some features in this release you may want to try out. They can be reached through the menu system but I will also post direct links.

Personal messaging settings. 
https://letschat.club/index.php?action=pm;sa=settings

• There is an option to have new messages appear first rather than at the bottom of a (possibly long) list.
• You can opt to have a popup to tell you a new PM has arrived - more obvious than the bold number which I certainly often didn't spot for a while.

There appears to be some labelling system for PMs now too but I haven't explored that.

Those options appear to be duplicated in a profile setting plus this one...

A bug free WYSIWYG editor

To try it out as a permanent option (until you change the setting anyway)
In profile "Look and Layout" settings near the bottom.

https://letschat.club/index.php?action=profile;area=theme

Click the checkbox labelled "Load editor in WYSIWYG mode by default"

Like the old software the option can be switched per post by clicking the last option in the format bar when you make a post (shows as "Toggle source view" if you hover the mouse over it).

So what is a WYSIWYG editor?

• It is the default editor type on PF but I didn't make it default here as bugs in it in the old software was the cause of those annoying BBCODE size and font tags that had to be edited out.
• It makes the posting box operate more like a word processor such as MS Word.
• You will see text closer to how it will appear when posted but there can be drawbacks when pasting in from elsewhere in that sizes may be odd unless you paste as plain text.

Anyway the option exists to try it out without those particular tags but copy paste from webpages may not produce what you expect.