A good idea 🙂 In fact the site used to do it (reply count anyway, view count is a bit of a non-entity in my opinion 'cos it probably counts search engines).
It's fair to say there's a few features this forum lacks that are standard on others. Way back when I first built it I had a couple of people suggesting I build it from scratch rather than hack about an existing forum. I'm glad I did because it integrates so well with the site. But I still haven't got around to adding a few bits and bobs.
That said, I want to completely re-write the forum next year as a learning exercise in alll sorts of things like IIS7 ISAPI re-writing, LINQ and AJAX. It's a roll and roll life I tell you :lol:
my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by