update:
What's finished up to now:
--set topic as normal, sticky, announce or global and set how long you want to keep it (moderator)
topic locking, editing locking
--topic tags filter system
can be disabled or enabled. User can pick a topic tag when posting a topic. There is a list of topic tags listing on the top of the view forum page in one line. By clicking one of the tag, you can narrow down the number of topics by types in the view forum page
Featured topic
moderator can set a valuable topic as featured. Once set featured, the topic has a little blue "featured" icon appending it is title on the view forum page. BTW, "Featured" is one of the preset topic tags
simple pagination links for each topic on the view forum page
With this, you can easy jump to a certain page of a topic on the view forum page. Take a look at the opencart forum and you will understand how it works
--poll!!!!
single-option and multi-option poll. ip voting time limit to prevent members from cheating. utilize a count down jquery plug-in the poll voting page, so we get the count down animation visual effect!!
--member's profile page
--forum locking and hiding
--user rank
we got lovely user rank icons-star, moon, sun and crown icons and we got a "Process to Next Rank" bar on member's profile on the view topic page
--user group
Admin, Global Moderator, Moderator, registered member, unverified member, banned member, guest. You can specify badges for a certain user group. Wanna have a look at the preset badge?

This is one of them.
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--user permissions System
God, I think this is one of the most basic yet vital part of a forum system
--thanks for posting system
User can give posters a thanks with just a click, "thanks recieved" is shown with each post, "thank received num" and "thanks given num" displayed on member's profile on the view post page
--Best answer/Post solved system
User can choose one post as the best answer and mark the topic as solved. Once marked as solved, the topic will have a nice-looking green "solved" ribbon on the view forum page. On the view topic page,there is a "jump to best answer" link and little "solved" icon appending the title of the question-asking post; The best-answer post will have a little "Best Answer" Icon appending its title.
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The "Who is online" and "Forum Statistics(total posts,Total topics,Total members, newest member)" part? Ok, they could be done very quickly. I will finish these two features very soon.
Now, what to work on is the MCP(moderator control panel), searching, "forum questions" tab in the product page and the caching system.
The final thing I will work on the caching system. Once other features finished, I will set up a demo!!!!
Gosh, it takes months to finish this project and I am exhausted

Hopefully all features of this forum could be finished within the next one or two weeks!!!!
