[ruuk]

With "Reverse sort posts" "On", if I go to my subscriptions, then go into a subscribed thread to see the posts, the newest post is at the top. With the "Reverse sort posts" still "On", if I click "Search" click "Search user" then type "ruuk" then click "Recent posts", I'm presented with the newest post at the bottom.

I think I'll make the 'Recent Posts' ignore that setting, since it kind of a search result. For instance, if you view recent posts on the xbmc.org site, they are displayed like search results.

Whilst adding forums from the online database, you are not kept at the list of forums once you have selected one, to make further selections. You are dropped back to the forum manager for you to click "Add from online" again. I'm sure sometime back we were left at the list to make further selections

Added to my pre-2.0 list

When selecting logo's via the browse option it would be nice if fb auto refreshed when closing the forum manager window, to load the new logo to the forum, currently you have to reload the forum to see the changed logo. Also when reloading the forum to see the new logo, the forum manager icon for the forum in question reverts back to the old displayed logo and not the new logo. When first selecting the logo it did initially appear in the forum manger window ok. (I have confused myself I don't know how your going to understand this ha ha)

I can't seem to duplicate this. I open the forum settings, change the logo, click ok, close the forums manager, and FB changes to the new icon. Try again and see if it still happens. If not then maybe a log will have something.
While testing this I did realize I need to make getting the images cancel-able. On the site I was trying it was taking about 2 minutes and I just had to sit there and watch the spinning splash until it was done.

Regarding asynchronous connections I've switched it on and I'm able to interrupt loading pages via the stop button easily, I restarted xbmc a number of times no problems at all.

That's good. It's the sort of thing I need to test on different systems (linux,win,mac,atv,android) to be sure it works properly, which is why I'll make it default to false before the update.

As I say I did a completely fresh clean install, and received a message on first starting fb it said "Keyboard mod removed, Forum browser will need to be restarted before it takes effect". So I restarted and all ok. I think you intended this message, as I must have left the keyboard mod switched on when unistalling fb , therefore leaving the mod loaded, and forum browser spotted that the mod was still loaded, but the setting by default is to have the mod switched off. Am I right ?.

Assuming you only did a fresh install of FB then yes that is what happened and is correct. If you did a fresh XBMC install (ie the skin files were deleted and re-installed) then that shouldn't have happened.

I like the red "!" pulsing when a new message is received.

I thought you might It was amazingly hard to get that to work properly. Me and XBMC had a pitched battle, but I prevailed in the end.

I mostly use xbmc.org & hub, the hub is to me a little quicker to navigate around, with xbmc.org just a little slower but nothing at all to worry about. Is this because of the different api levels & plugin versions for the forums, or don't you notice it a little.

I've noticed it as well. I believe it is probably due to bandwith/usage issues and/or (as you said) the api (as they are different forum systems, the underlying code for the api is totally different).
It's impossible to compare this with the actual sites as the xbmc.org site has less images and no ads compared to xbmchub.com, whereas tapatalk bypasses all that.