So I'm going to condense all my suggestions into one thread just so I don't end up making a bunch of threads all at once, sorry if any of these have already beem suggested, but I hadn't seen any of these yet!

Basic color formatting for posts

Additional html customization for threads in the forum, may need to be restricted to a set palette to prevent abuse, and ease accessibility, readability, and proper display on dark/light mode.

Image embed button

Something I'm surprised wasn't already a feature and made me dig around a lot of old html knowledge in my brain to figure out how to imbed images. A quick shortcut button on the forum posting toolbar would be a nice QoL of life feature for less html savvy users.

Forum game forum

Would keep clutter out of other forums and prevents threads from being drowned out, helps community engagement.

Forum signatures

Would be a nice user customizability and qol feature, such as providing a space to link user shops, graphics, or important information about themselves in a more conveniently readable format than user profiles themselves.

Thread bump button

Great qol feature for sales and art threads so users don't need to manually bump threads, but may need to be set on a timer or restricted in some way such as only to the original poster and a certain amount per day (say once every few hours) to prevent abuse of the feature. This can also be disabled on threads past a certain age (say several months) to prevent necrobumping of old topics.

Thread subscriptions & thread subscription management

Currently, we don't receive notifications when other users post in our forum threads, this is something I'd love to have the option of, as well as being able to follow other threads on site by way of an opt-in thread subscription feature.
Additionally, having the ability to see what threads I am currently subscribed to via something like a list under account settings and the ability to mass manage my thread subscriptions would be amazing for qol.

Ability to lock/close own threads.

This is a feature I could see potentially abused if one were simply able to delete threads, but a good compromise would be allowing the original poster of the thread to close/lock a thread when they are finished with it, allowing the thread to be preserved. This also protects threads against necrobumping especially on old topics.

This could be restricted similarly to only allow the OP to close/lock a thread of their own and disallow them to reopen the thread without contacting a moderator just to prevent any potential abuses of this.

Some extras that came to mind:

Forum emojis

Maybe I'm just too used to Discord but it would be nice to have some wolf-themed emojis around here as well if for nothing more than a fun/goofy thing. It almost feels sort of barren and sterile in the forums not having them on site as well coming from the Discord where they were already made.

Ping toggle setting

This one is more a loose suggestion than anything major but having the ability in user settings to toggle off forum pings by username would be nice. I don't expect it to be something with a lot of use, but it could make the site more accessible to some.

Post preview

This one slipped my mind in the original post, but was another major qol thing I wanted to suggest. This would make some lives easier especially when formatting posts as to not need to go back and edit a post after posting due to formatting issues especially when working with the html functionality on site.

These would all be SO appreciated, right now the forum feels really dreary to to look at, I know this is an issue on Lioden too that uses HTML, hardly anyone in the “Art Sales” tab even knows how to add images to their post, and I wanted to format my simple posts a bit but I don't want to spend all the time typing out my alignment, font size, anything. It's too demanding. it would be nice if we had these shortcuts, it'll make the place feel so much more inviting and user-friendly!

All of these are such good suggestions and covers honestly everything I was looking for and, when finding a sore lack of them, was disappointed to see not in existence—especially the ability to subscribe to threads and forum signatures! Those are an absolute must when it comes to forums!

Yes all of this please!! the forums need major work.

I'd also like to suggest adding pagination to the top of threads!

These please!

It's difficult to keep track of threads rn and I'm hoping that can be fixed with forum subscriptions.

I also very much agree with @/Lai. html isn't all that user friendly to people who don't know code

I'd especially love the forum signature thing. I've never actually come across a forum that doesn't allow them

So badly needed. way more important imo than achievements too. If we as a community can have a nice forum outlet then we will entertain ourselves with things. I think it’s important.

And please make ping notifications take you to the post you been pinged in

I actually like formatting in html, but it's limiting. If the forms would allow the use of the inline css style tag, I could…..center images. At the very least.

Simple is nice, and maybe we could strive for that well. But having the option to design bios perfectly is pure joy.

@Antaresia

Hope you don't mind the ping, but you can center images actually in native html.

The <center></center> tag should work for images here already!

Huge support for the bump thread feature. Replies should be content-filled, but I end up replying with “bump” just to keep my thread from being buried. That's not the point of a forum post.