Well done folks!!

Should have been one button that then spread out/uncollapsed to reveal them other buttons.

It'd be cleaner.

Hello all,

I just wanted to answer a couple of the points made:

Sharing threads from private forums - If you don't have access to the forum a thread is in, you can't see it. The Thread title is shared by default, a link with no context doesn't make a lot of sense and the title is the obvious thing to include. You're not going to accidentally share something here, there are a minimum of 2 clicks required (on the button and on the pop-over to confirm you want to share it) assuming you're logged in to whichever service you're using. Pretty much every private forum has a rule about not sharing outside of the forum anyway so the addition of these buttons makes no difference to someone's desire to break that rule anyway. It takes 2 or 3 less clicks than copy/pasting a link as is.

Andres did take a look at how easy it would be to to turn off for Private forums. Short answer - MASSIVELY complicated (thanks to VBulletin's permissions system) and we're talking about maybe 150 forums (including Mod only sub sections) out of 1300 forums. It's too much work to have to hack through the templates and set an on/off flag for these buttons based on permissions.

Looks bad on old skins - I say this with the greatest of respect, we don't care Our position on the several anchors around our neck that old skins are has been stated on this many, many times, this is now one more reason to turn the old skins off completely. It's time to switch over folks.

Tweet integration - I like that idea and it's something I'd like to see happen in the far future when we're running completely on our own code - similar to the question that was raised about integrating Soundcloud and so on a few days ago. I'd see that all being a part of the same basic project.

Drawing new people into a discussion - that's our business model folks, more people talking about more things. This is our site's raison d'être

[EDIT]TV posted as I was writing this
Links go to touch. - it's a shorter URL so more tweet friendly. If you regularly browse on the desktop, you'll have a cookie set that'll automatically switch you over to that anyway. I asked the same question myself when I saw it

The other layout issues you mentioned are being passed on, thanks for those. I think we'd started looking at that padding issue already, but overlaopping the pagination at lower resolutions is a big one, we'll wanna get cracking on that straight away, so thank you again for the list.

We were just talking about the brds.ie shortening thing in our Hipchat channel, I've suggested it be a Hack Day project for someone.

On the Private Forums thing, I was briefly looking it over with Andres and thought that the "can view" permission flag for the Registered Users group might be the best way to see it, but I'll ask him to have a look out for the Vars you mentioned there - if we can do it easily, we absolutely will, but the initial investigation looked horrific.

Thanks again for the pro-tips