Thanks! Glad you're enjoying and I hope we see some more new faces.
Couple answers for ya:
One thing I miss on chainbb is not being able to see the poster's reputation. Was that a conscious decision to try and allow posts to stand more on their merits than on the 'merit' of the member making the post? If so, I can dig that.
This one just hasn't been added yet. I think the data already exists on the post so it shouldn't be too hard to get on the page. I might do something fun with it though and do some color coating, make people with higher reps pop out a bit.
The other thing I miss is seeing the expected payout value of a post/comment.
This one isn't added yet on purpose. The database behind chainBB doesn't actually have up to date information about the pending payout, instead it has a cached value based on the last time the post was upvoted or replied to. So I could display it somehow - but I think I'd get more complaints about it being inaccurate than anything else.
Currently I think I'm going to rework how votes are displayed and show them like they display in the "Inbox" section, in the upper right of the title as a number. When you click that - I think I'm going to have that be the deep dive of post information. You'll be able to see who voted, weights, and current/pending payment information.
The thought behind the popup right now is that during the course of a discussion in a thread, the goal shouldn't be to distract the user with how much a post made, but keep that info easily accessible for those who want to dig.
But I just think it's the best format for discussion.
Totally agreed, and I don't think many of this new generation of social media users realize it.