Someone posted about teenagers breaking up over petty teenager thongs, and that reminded me of my parents' story. They were high school sweethearts, but my mom moved away after a couple of years. Everywhere my dad went, though, she just kind of popped up randomly; on vacation with her family, traveling with friends, etc. They'd always talk for a while when they saw each other. They started hanging out again and got married after college. Now, 30 years later and they're still crazy about each other.
My oldest sister and her husband also dated as young teens, and they're a friggin' power couple.
Does youtube embedding work here?
Nope. That's a can of worms I'm not ready to open yet. There is a way to get it working, but there are other things that are both simpler for me, and more pressing.
Concerning a spam board, and a shout box, shout boxes that I've seen end up taking away from the rest of the forums they're on. One forum I use hardly gets more than 3-4 posts per day, because the user base is small, and everyone just uses the shout box. A spam board might work though... It's just... 5 is such a goooooood number for boards! I've considered that as well, and I've thought about implementing it as a trial, like the language board (speaking of which, it's obvious that the language board is here to stay, I'm not even going to bother putting up a poll for that, but maybe a poll for suggestions?).
As for storage, I'm not sure why smf limits the storage for attachments, but I'd assume it's to keep the site running at decent speeds. SMF is really cool, they don't have a subscription model or anything, as far as I know. There is a limit on how much the host site will store, though. We're about half full right now, after 3 months, using their free option. Believe it or not, I was actually going to look I to upgrading to a paid subscription this afternoon.
