[quote=@Grim]
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I don't think being informed of unread posts when you're about to post is industry standard, but RPG is definitely starting to show its age. Unfortunately, Mahz is clearly too busy to be implementing major features right now, and I doubt we'll be getting a second coder anytime soon.
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This is integrated into some popular platforms.

Planetminecraft had it [s]before the forums ended up looking pretty shitty[/s] and were a customized form of some big platform. Alas, I don't remember what it is. Might have been phpbb. Either way, it's not an excessively rare thing to come across.