hello!
my name is Renoa and i liked this forum so much i added an arabic translation !

i have a few ideas that might make it easier to navigate an artist lounge (my site is catering to game developers and artists etc)

1. allow youtube videos and soundcloud clips to be embedded into the body of text (there's a plugin but it doesnt work for me)
2. ability to hide parts of the text such as a spoiler tag or large chunks of code or nsfw artwork.
3. when a user uploads images, it is linked to a gallery in their profile page (it can be anything from mp3 files to images etc) nothing fancy, just gathering the user uploads in one page, if possible.
4. ability for users to add their personal website and information about themselves in their profile page, maybe tags so i can find users by profession or expertise (animator, horror writer, unity) etc
5. add more than 5 tags

it would also be great to be able to change the permanent url of categories, since i can edit the category name but the permanent URL still uses the old one. for example, if i created a category named (talented-people-art) and changed it to (gallery) it will still point to site.com/category/talented-people-art

thank you for the great system ^^ it is the best i found yet!

when a user uploads images, it is linked to a gallery in their profile page (it can be anything from mp3 files to images etc) nothing fancy, just gathering the user uploads in one page, if possible.

That's a good idea. We will see what we can do about it

add more than 5 tags

You can increase the limit by changing the following line in
sites/default/themes/default/templates/forum/new_topic.tpl
around line 300

maxTags: 5,

The other things mentioned are already in our todo list.

it would also be great to be able to change the permanent url of categories, since i can edit the category name but the permanent URL still uses the old one. for example, if i created a category named (talented-people-art) and changed it to (gallery) it will still point to site.com/category/talented-people-art

We can make this an admin only feature available in the backend.

thank you very much for the response
i'm looking forward to the next update whenever it's ready!