Suggestions and Bug Report: Forum control buttons on home page, forum categorization, and private messaging | Site suggestions | Discussion forum

Hi Peter,

Thank for so promptly correcting the reported bug re: disappearing pop-up dialog window in Google Chrome when trying to insert a link (works great!) and for actioning @MapleOne's suggestion to remove the "Add Topic" button adjacent to the "Add Reply" button when in an existing thread. In the latter case, I have gotten confused with that on occasion, but never found it a significant impediment to suggest its removal, so, in that way, was indifferent to whether to removing it or leaving it as is. After a short adjustment period, it will be better only having an "Add Topic" button within the respective forum.

A couple more suggestions and a bug report I had are discussed in sequence below:

1. On the forum home page, one cannot access their profile page, subscribed topics, or private messaging* until they go into the "forum" page (*assuming they're logged in). I assume this is because you've embedded the latest forum discussions onto the home page and because the forum design resembles the site's overall design so closely, it's difficult to distinguish which are webpages and which are the discussion forums. While not a significant issue, it would reduce extra clicks if you were able to add a few lines of code to the home page that would display the forum controls (again, assuming one is logged in) to the left of the "log out" button
2. Thanks also for responding quickly to my suggestion to create a new forum category for the now plentiful financial institution-specific forums and to sorting each category alphabetically by name. This has dramatically improved the findability of a desired forum. I'm wondering, though, if you can display "Archived" category of forums from the "Discussion forum" page, below all the main categories. The "Archived" category is displayed in the drop-down menu at the top right of the forum, but the problem with that is when scrolling in the web browser tab, the drop-down menu disappears and one cannot click through to an archived forum. Alternatively, if you don't want to display the three archived forums from the "Discussion forum" webpage, could you add a small rectangular text box like the "Unread and recently updated topics" one, immediately above that, that says, "Click here to view the Archived discussion forums area," or something similar, that takes you to the page listing the archived forums?
3. In the Private Messaging system, when I was deleting some old private messaging threads going back 10 years or so yesterday, I noticed that they re-appeared and I'd have to leave the PM system and come back to see them gone. I'm wondering if you can fix this bug so they're gone whether you leave the PM system or not?

Edit: Also, this topic title should read "and private messaging" not "and profiles". Appreciate it if you can edit my topic title, Peter. Additionally, might you consider giving forum "members" the ability to edit their own topic titles in the same way they can edit their own original posts and reply messages? We'd still not be permitted to delete our own posts.

Thanks, Peter!

Cheers,
Doug