Suggestion Box

I know there is BeLogin, but I wanted to know if there has been any talk about providing this functionality out of the box knowing it's fully supported and won't potentially break?

Most of you probably know about kickstarter by now , and if you don't , it's basically a micro funding site. Lately there have been quite the few successful projects , projects that managed to obtain insane amount of funding.
As Haiku In.c is an US based entity maybe it's time for a funding campaign on Kickstarter.
Haiku is quite well looked upon on must tech sites so most likely such a campaign would be well covered in the news bringing the project into everyone attention. And as we have seen till now people are quite eager to invest into something new and different.
Even if the campaign doesn't rack much in funds it should at least bring Haiku in the attention of more people.
Also , most likely , we will receive more then from the current on site Fundraiser.

What is the community opinion on such an endeavor?

Hello forum denizens!

On the haiku-web mailing list it was wondered what features the web forums lack. To that end everyone's invited to post their ideas. So, bain-storming... I start:

• International forums
  I'd suggest to go with German, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish subforums first, all other languages go into the main "International" forum. If there's much traffic of one language in the main forum, we can offer to open its own subforum.
  Equally, if there's no traffic in those default languages, move the threads to the main forum and close it down.
• Move some forums to "Old & Closed"
  Some forums almost not used at all. To keep their posts without cluttering, let's put them under "Old & Closed"

  I propose thes forums:

  • General Haiku Discussion
    Here you can talk about anything relating to Haiku.
  • User Support Forum
    Questions/problems with Haiku? Post here and get help from the community.
  • Suggestion Box
    Suggestions about something related to Haiku? Post here.
  • International Forum
    -- subforums: German, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
  • Off-Topic
  • Old & Closed
    Move Marketing, Team Haiku Distributed Computing, Creative Design, Newbie Developer Forum here. Those have been very low-traffic, people can post these topics in the general forum, for example.
• Avatars
  To make posts better recognizable and the whole thing more personal. I'd opt for one fixed size, like 96x96, to have it all nice and tidy.
• Roles/Badges
  To make e.g. Haiku developers better recognizable, add some special image/rolename to their postings.
• Polls
• Sticky threads
  Admins can set a thread to "stick" to the top in a forum.
• Optional flat hierarchy
  Have the option to see all threads chronologically instead of sorted into subforums.
• Uploading and showing images in a post
  (Or is this already possible?)

What are your ideas.
Note, however, that this is just a wishlist without any promises of eventual implementation.

Regards,
Humdinger