Shoutbox

The main reason behind it is convenience.  I do realise the hassle behind maintaining it but loading up a whole new page requires me to load up an entirely new page rather than just a little bit and look on a little interface. Have a look at my attachment to see how big and bulky a profile page looks too me.... and it requires me to head away from the thread i was reading to look up the information about the person to remind myself (or in the case of a new person, to find out in the first place).

I do realise that you guys have better things to do, but the idea of an "information card" I believe is great for it's convenience and allowing us to view the information in the thread while keeping the information to a minimum on the left.  I do also consider that this will make profile pages almost redundant, but couldn't we also say that the change of symbol in front of a forum on the index page is also redundant because of latest.php ?

I don't think we need this feature yet (as I stated before), but it might be something to think about for the future....