personally, didn't care about the chat area. nice to see the upgrade. i was just commenting to Omar that SCR was broken..
one thing i'd like to request (but not sure if possible)
on the home screen with the list of recent threads, is it possible to add direct link to pages at the end of the threads?
example:
Growth of SCR...new SCR (1,2,3.. last)
it'd be nice for older/popular threads, where you can skip directly to the last page rather than click the thread, wait for it to load, and then click the last page link.