What about requesting enhancements or other changes that--strictly phrased--are not reports about bugs or other problems?

Should those also be submitted to this topic, or would you prefer a separate topic?

Moderator answer: Yes, please post them here.

With any project this complex, there are GOING to be oversights as well as bugs.

I see an unfavorable design-change: HTML entity-codes (i.e., ugly tokens in the form "&#dddd;" are actually converted to the corresponding UTF-8 characters in each cycle of using preview, instead of being left as-is for the CathInfo-reader's browser to figure out & display.

This means that
· I lose track of where I've placed no-break-space (& # 160), used for visually gluing a separating blank between characters (e.g., the papal name of a pope and the ordinal number for his name), which I assume is caused by SMF treating no-break-space as whitespace undistinguished from any other; and
· I lose my most common reference-marks, which I customarily enclose by brackets, e.g., "[ # ]", "[ * ]" and "[ + ]", all of which disappear in the actual posting, because they are instances of BB-Code syntax[**] that, altho' common elsewhere, wasn't usable on the MercuryBoard CathInfo.

It's the conflict with the common and recognizable bracket ('[' and ']') convention for nontypeset references to notes, used with the customary reference-marks '*', '†', '‡', or more readily available '#', '$', '+', which makes me strongly prefer braces ('{' and '}') as the delimiters for BB-Code.  I've seen PERL code for an early wiki (Ward Cunningham's?) in which braces-vs.-brackets is a webmaster-configurable option.  Might it also be so in the SimpleMachines Forum source-code?
 
The possibility that modern keyboards specialized for certain widespread overseas languages, e.g.: German, might still not have such symbols, might be the only potentially compelling reason for continuing to tolerate the conflict with the bracketed note-reference syntax.  Altho' it's well past time to apply the ALT keys to their originally intended use, such that, e.g., left-paren ('(')+ALT yields left-brace ('{'), and left-bracket ('[')+ALT yields left-angle-bracket (Misc. Tech. '〈' or Math-A '⟨').

I suppose you can simply present the new syntax as an enhancement to CathInfo that's built in to SMF, which is how it will seem to most CathInfo members.  But you really ought to provide a few pinned informational topics, including 1 for BB-Code syntax processed by SMF.  In the technically oriented opinion of someone who recognizes that he's not the owner-moderator-webmaster, of course.

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Note **: Syntax for bulleted list-items, numbered list-items, and I suppose, another kind of list-items that I don't recall.  I also don't recall the syntax for beginning and ending the lists.

Have only been using the new site for maybe five minutes, so nothing to report-- except-- the bold used by both you and Alligator Dicax seems a bit underwhelming.  I see as I'm composing this reply that the preview uses a strong, black color for the font but as I view both of your replies, it is a rather weak-grey color.

This problem has been fixed!

I liked how the old site standardized image sizes so that you didn't have to worry about the size of your image before posting.

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Since there's not a "suggestions" thread, I'll put this here. 

With the "old" CI, my main complaint was that there was no "unread posts" or "replies to threads you're participating in" filter. There was the "new posts" filter which didn't take into account whether or not you'd read it. 

But I think the current state of this smf incarnation is actually worse. You get a "feed" of new posts, and it's not very long-- maybe ten. And if there's a hot topic (like...Drumroll....feeneyism!) Then the feed is just populated by the most recent posts for that thread, and not infrequently (such as tonight) many may even be by the same poster. 

Obviously it's day one so I'm not too worried, but this is definitely something that needs attention. As is, the "new posts" feed is pretty useless. It *should* be a way for people to get a general overview of recent forum activity, but it isn't. 

Why not just use (what I believe is the default for smf) the unread posts/new posts to your topics dynamic (as seen on most "out of the box" smf boards)?  

Matthew, Will  our avatars be restored or do we need to reinstall them?

It kept all the off-site ones, but the uploaded ones all got junked, I think.
Yes, I would replace your avatar. You can upload one, or use an image from somewhere on the Net.

The space between paragraphs are sometimes lost. They are present when typing but once it gets posted the gap disappears sometimes.