Forum update and submissions

Looks good, only question is, other than going through every thread one by one, what options are there for viewing/searching?

There's none. My second step is to make something similar to this, but for sprites. That one thread per submission thing is really temporary, only a way to record the submission info in the database, save the screenshot/sprite on the server and show we have approved it. Otherwise there's no incentive to submit anything unless the whole display page / search option are 100% done. It's like building a cheap wooden stairway during your house construction, everyone knows it's not permanent and serve only during construction.

Granted, could have tags, or the very layout should pull it up in a search based on the name of the sprite if you know what your looking for.

Tags are efficient if most of submitters used them properly.

What is sure is that there's gonna be one search dropdownlist for every submission characteristic (ex: size, type, palette). The only fields that would be a search textbox (input) is search by submission title (partial or complete title). Palette I'm not sure it could be a list from 0 to 7, "custom" and "not important" because I don't really see someone searching for a monster that uses palette 482 and not using the sprite because the said palette is already taken, thought not impossible lol, but palette search does make more sense for PC/NPC sprites.