I added an Unread link at the top and also next to the "Jump to" dropdown on the threads.

google.com/gonegoogle which links to a pretty aggressive ad.

I go outside to help the wife with some groceries and up in the sky this is happening.  It took five planes working in tandem.  My kids said that it has been going on all day and that they were reading it at school.  My wife took the pic for me.

I've done something very similar but my product was free software, it did okay.  Yeah, to make it work you have to work every single angle, you have to have ads, you have to have a paid option, I had a store too where I sold related products.  I did okay, but it was a lot of work for the money.  There were lots of fans of the project, but fandom doesn't pay the bills.

That said, I would do it again if I had the right idea and it was something I enjoyed.

Honestly, I think that is the problem with a lot of these blogger types, they have the user base, but they are so afraid to monetize them because they think it will offend them.  Yet, if you look at any large institution that gives away their service they always hit the user over the head with opportunities to pay for something, a donation subscription, or a related product.

Here is a SciFi writer who gives his ebooks away for free and still manages to make $70-80k/year.

The NPR article:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/10/25/130811846/doctorow

His website:
http://craphound.com/

Thanks, its a work in progress.

I just enabled attachments.

Do you like the current logo?  I think I like it better than the one with the old theme but a 3 instead of an E. 

Okay, good, I'm not the best php hacker.

It's at the bottom next to the "jump to" dropdown box.

Edit: err only on the thread pages... I'll hack at it some more.

picky...

I did one better and added an active tab up top and next to the home link.

I added recent posts to the bottom of the board's index page, its pretty close to the same functionality.

It's close, but not quite the same thing.  Maybe that was a hack on the old board, I'll try to find a way to get it on here.

affbuzz.com sometimes has links to stuff worth reading.