Oh, regards the "Top" button on posts...Check on your keyboard for "Home". It takes you to the top of the page if you're not active in a text box (i.e. no cursor blinking in it). Even faster than button on the screen.
Regards rep, we're working on it. There are a few mods that allow for the comments, but they have bugs, which we'd like to see fixed before we implement.
Salt-Man Z, on 16 October 2009 - 06:57 PM, said:
"Don't like it much, but I'll live."
Actually, I'm fairly ambivalent. However, there are a lot of minor things that bug me. The most annoying is the fact that hitting the "back" browser button from inside a thread has a roughly 50/50 chance of giving me an error. (I'd give more detail, but of course, for the life of me I can't duplicate the error now.) Everything feels much more "spread out" than before; by which I mean the previous board had a more compact look that made it easier to look at. I really don't like having to scroll down a page to get to the "Add Reply" button, but that was a "feature" of the previous board, too. And as wonderful as having rep again is, it's really frustrating to not be able to track where it's coming from.
Overall, though, it works. So basically I'm happy.
Seeing as this has actual concerns, I figured I'd respond directly.
The "back" thing is your end, I think. I've certainly never encountered that problem. If you could duplicate it and give me a detailed report via PM, I may be able to help you through that.
You have to scroll to the bottom of the page to add a reply? Aside from fast reply, there is a "Reply" button on every single post left by other members on the way down. Click that, delete quoted text, and you're good. Besides which I normally wait until I'm at the bottom of the page before replying using the fast-reply box anyway...so that's an issue I haven't had yet. But using the "Reply" button on each post would solve your issue, I think.
Not sure about the compact thing. You mean there was more unused space around the edges of the forum?

Or that there were smaller areas of distinction between threads/forums/categories?
And I haven't noticed the rep thing - but that's because I can actually see where it is coming from anyway. XD
As I said, though, we're waiting on systems to remove their bugs before tackling the rep system.
Hope that helps.