I'm not impressed with the idea of a forum. It's somehow too distant from the galleries. How would your image get into your personal gallery? Upload it twice? A forum doesn't allow for thumbs. This may be OK for someone on cable who can check out everything pretty fast, but people like me who have to use a 3.5K/sec dialup couldn't possibly look at every post. It takes about 30 seconds to bring this thread up, let alone an image as well. And do people really want e-mail notifications when people comment on an image they've commented on? Also, the number of viewings in a forum wouldn't be worth it. As a proportion of the total Rendo community, a very small fraction use the forums. Bryce has perhaps about 100 posting members at any one time (my estimate), which is what - less than 1% of the total Brycers? In fact, I'll modify my first statement. I think a forum would be really bad. I wouldn't use it myself, because of the reasons I've outlined above and also because of the way it doesn't fit in with the rest of the site. The mechanism for commenting is already there. It just needs a slight tweak. I don't see the point of ignoring this and trying to make a forum do what the galleries already do.