Seriously bummed over here :( While these minor enhancements are nice, it still does not bring the forums up to a functional standard in my opinion.

The auto split feature seems like a decent solution, but I fear the approach you've taken on it is only confusing. The process should be more fluid than having a robot user named autopilot visibly spawning new topics and locking the old one. "Archiving" might be a better term and more user friendly, with an icon other than a padlock (which see more indicates a moderator closed a thread due to negative activity).

I would honestly prefer traditional pagination. Google crawls it just fine. When I ran my site off phpBB, SEO was incredible and I had a lot of organic traffic.

On top of that, I'm afraid you missed many key features:
- Topic titles need to be editable
- photos/video and other modules need to be tightly integrated with the forums. My users should be able to quickly insert an image into a forum post directly from their gallery, or choose to upload an image with a forum post and have it inserted into the gallery (this same functionality would be swell for blogs & articles too btw).
- Better moderation capabilities
- Forum membership type should be pulled from site membership. Administrator and Member don't cut it here.
- Additional member details should be displayed in their forum post info. IE - Avatar, location, post count, online status etc. Quicklinks like befriend & message would be helpful too.

I do appreciate the minor enhancements you have made, but have to ask why on earth this module is still using different/more complex framework than that of which the rest of the platform uses? Makes it very difficult for me to sit in my corner and be quiet about this requests as I can't just integrate them myself like I can with the rest of the site :(. I can't even find a developer that will touch it for modifications.