Alternatehistory.com has an example of both improvements.
In our forums, if you click "show replies to your posts" you get an indiscriminate list of every single thread you posted to, even ones you don't want to see replies to. In their forums, you can subscribe to only the threads you want.
Here the "previous" and "next" are comically tiny. I really don't care how much of a pain it is on mobile or tablet since forums aren't supposed to cater to their tiny screens, but I'm a PC user and yeah the buttons are tiny. In their forums there are page numbers which are reasonably sized. More importantly, there is a little arrow button of left and right, most other forums only let you navigate two pages before and after but their arrow system allows nice navigations. It's a shame their admin is less sensible than their webdesign.
In our forums, if you click "show replies to your posts" you get an indiscriminate list of every single thread you posted to, even ones you don't want to see replies to. In their forums, you can subscribe to only the threads you want.
Here the "previous" and "next" are comically tiny. I really don't care how much of a pain it is on mobile or tablet since forums aren't supposed to cater to their tiny screens, but I'm a PC user and yeah the buttons are tiny. In their forums there are page numbers which are reasonably sized. More importantly, there is a little arrow button of left and right, most other forums only let you navigate two pages before and after but their arrow system allows nice navigations. It's a shame their admin is less sensible than their webdesign.