Welcome to my new support Forum. I've replaced the old Bravenet Forum with this one because it's more comfortable and it has much more functions than the old one.
You could use Avatars (max size 100 x 100 pix) and upload your picture in the profile. It's not necessary to register but when you are a registered user you have the possibility to send private messages to all other Forum members. Also you could create polls and other things when you are a registered user.
Great, I'm very happy that you like the new Forum too. I'm a bit sad that I had no possibility to save the postings of the old Forum. But I'm sure in just a few months we retrieve the same pool of experience from the Forum members as we had in the last Forum.