Bananadine wrote:

Speaking of highlighting! Shacknews, while generally much uglier and probably less interesting than Caltrops, has an interesting forum system that is appears to be better than this one in a few ways. For instance the way they gradually darken the text of a post as the post grows older--that seems like it would be very helpful on this site, and probably fairly simple to implement.

(Click one of their "comments" links to get past the crappy main page and into the hierarchical forums.)