Those are all cool features, and I think that quite a few of them are useful, too.

but none of this is required to keep me around here.

Yep, bells-and-whistles aren't the point--it's the content. I look at the BBS software as providing the environment in which conversations can take place, and any feature I add has to contribute in some way to either facilitating conversation (preview and editing, graphic emoticons for emotional nuance, etc.); or protect privacy, such as the membership system that keeps out the spammer spiders and corporate intelligence services. I'd go further and talk about how the software can facilitate the sense of community, and polling systems, for example, are the way to determine the "consensus of the board" about self-governance issues.

I guess my mantra would be "technology in service of the community".

Everybody's suggestions and feedback are grist for the mill, and I'd say that by a large majority you can expect to see the suggestions show up eventually in this software. To quote Frasier Crane, "I'm listening".

--Robert