Matt, I'm hoping this is something you have you're programmer working on.  I imagine many of us are very used to hitting refresh and it's a hard habit to break.  Also, given that we have to select a topic to post a message, the site should enforce this (i.e. either the Post Message button is not active unless a topic is select or we get a warning message if we try to post without selecting a topic). Thanks for all your hard work!  The new blog is a great improvement!     Trip