IRC link works again. You have to input your name manually for now, however.

Entirely new text box system has been integrated to the site. This one is MUCH lighter javascript.

Let me know what buttons you want to see. You can get damn near anything you have in Word. Let me know.

have only skimmed the comments below, but in my short time on this site, a couple of things:

1) Sidebars are really helpful such as "Popular content" and "Who's Online", but when you're composing a post it can take up some valuable real estate.

2) The addition of /wowarmory is nice, but a more in depth profile page that includes specs, gear, professions (w/ rare recipes), raw materials open for trade could be helpful for members to link up with other members for stuff. Now this would be dependent on people updating their own profiles, but it would be interesting to see such a module in action

3) mmo-champ has a blue tracker RSS feed that I'm wondering whether it would be hard to integrate onto the site.

I'm sure I'll think of others, but honestly I've never seen a better guild website than this...most are just a forum with a stupid image on the top of it...And most of my comments are small things like being able to delete your own post, etc.

Is there any way to make the site load faster?  It seems like it's been very heavy lately and takes a very long time to load on initial opening as well as every time I post or navigate to another page.

First thing that I have noticed not major but would be great to have, I would love to be able to delete a post I make and be able to edit one of my posts that some else replies to.  Right now we cant delete a post at all and if someone replies to a post you made you then are not allowed to edit it anymore.  It is like this for me at least maybe I am overlooking something.

Just some thoughts, I have plenty more but I need time to think about the best way to implement it in an organized fashion.

It's a small suggestion and i have no idea what kind of coding or change would be involved, but when I choose to reply to a comment thread (guild apps comes to mind), I can't see the other comments that were previously made, and often I want to address several of them at a time.  So the ideal change would be to find a way to keep the existing comments visible when making a unique/original comment to a posting.

As far as thinking big about global changes, I suppose the first question would be to ask yourself what the goals of using the site would be.  There is a heavy amount of focus on coordinating and supporting the raid progressions, which of course based on my raiding past I fully support.  However, at present, the site is something I normally use as more of an out-of-game social tool.  I think there are many people who use the site in this context as well, but I'm not sure if that's your goal of a long-term end user.  That being said, it would be nice to see the profiles of actual people more fully fleshed out.  If anything, having a way to navigate the site, make blogs/posts, comments, etc in ways that separate the in-game content with what Downfall has ultimately become, which is a social organization, would be nice.  In short, sometimes I want to get down to game business, but other times I want to catch up on what my fellow guildies are up to.

The events section definitely could be updated to include more integration and more information.  I know a lot of people who have been posting raids will include a "confirmed roster", which has been extremely helpful to me when I do decide to sign up for a raid.  Beings that I only raid occassionally but still like to get in at times, I very much appreciate seeing that the person leading the raid already has 9 people in mind for spots, even if I only see 3 people actually signed up.  There is nothing more frustrating than continually trying to get in to a raid that you see low/no sign-ups in only to find out that there was a mass of regulars who will be given a priority invite.  And that is not to say that there is anything wrong with this....but, maybe sign-ups could be modified to have the event poster put a "priority list" when they create the event, and then when the user signs up, they could get a message that says something like "you are not on the priority list.  this event already has x number of druids, and x number of tank/heal/dps classes".  I like how the Looking for Group feature in game allows you to designate what roles you are comfortable doing; adding this to the events section would also be helpful.

That's my two cents for now, and as a side note just want to say on behalf of all guildies how much we appreciate all the time you do put in to making this little virtual hub a great place to visit for all of us.