Let me give a rundown of what modifications there were, so that bosk can address them individually if he chooses to, but the quick and safe answer is "none will be back anytime soon, and many not at all".
Some of the modifications that were done that are not in place now:
Global Announcements
Enhanced Profiles
Blogs (already had been uninstalled)
Videos auto-play in posts
Message preview on hover
Users Online Past 24 Hours list on forum index
Ability to change how many posts/threads per page you want to view
Ability to see who is browsing inside a given board, and thread
Colorized membernames across the board (depending on membergroup - example, admins were red)
Color membername legend on the forum main page (these two go hand in hand but are separate modifications)
Ability to bookmark threads
Separation of "Pinned Topics" and "Normal Topics"
Location and age under people's avatars when they post
Quoted image become a link instead of showing the image repeatedly
this is all I can think of offhand.
Even if I wanted to go through them one by one (which I don't!
), I can't. We can definitely tell that some things were a problem. With others, we just don't know. So a bit down the road (probably a few weeks), I will pick out a few that we believe
should be stable and not cause problems, and incorporate them one by one, with long breaks in between so we can monitor exactly how they impact the board. But I will comment briefly on just a few, from my limited understanding:
-Global Announcements: This should be a stable mod, but results vary dramatically on different forums. We aren't 100% sure it was one of the culprits here, but it could have been. The guy who created it has apparently broken from SMF and is very hostile to them. And he has not done an update in quite a while (although there is a relatively recent version that says it is updated, the actual files in it are very old, from what I understand, so it isn't a true update). So there is a lot of risk involved in using this. That is why I instead created the Rules/Announcements board.
-Enhanced Profiles: Bad. Probably created some of the problems. And most of the stuff in here, while kind of cool, is not by any means essential. This will not be coming back.
-Ability to change how many posts/threads per page you want to view: BADBADBADBADBAD!!! This is actually a standard feature, and I have it set at reasonable numbers right now. I bumped it up a bit last night from what it was during the day. Bumping this up increases server usage exponentially. Do the math: If viewing a post with some smilies and pictures in it causes, let's day, 5 forum processes to be running in the software to access that post, multiply that by how many posts are visible, and then again by how many users are trying to view that page. The number spiral up very quickly.) This was causing a lot of strain when it was more loose. In fact, I don't know how many of you recall when the forum was temporarily suspended for a couple of hours a few weeks back, but that was inadvertently caused by me playing around with the numbers to see what would happen. This is something it is not a good idea to mess with.