Peronsally, I find that it takes up too much space from the message area, so I disabled it. It might work fine with a bigger resolution - I use 1024 x 768 (still using the same old 17" monitor I bought years ago...).

Of course, I am aware that if you don't enable it by default, most members would never notice that such an option even exists, so the way you implemented it seems best.

>Today was a big day in regards to something new.
>
>By default, on the right side, we have a subscription panel. Everything in there are for subscribers. That includes the last 10 messages, last 10 threads, last 10 watched threads, last 10 word searching and last 10 subscribers users. The last three are bound to the Agent, as we already know it. I still have to adjust the terminology of Marked Threads to Watched Threads in other places.
>
>The subscription panel can be turned OFF in your profile under "Update your account". You can also specify the width of it.
>
>The last 10 messages is as indicated. The last 10 threads is what we have on the main page. It lists the last 10 thread activity showing the last message.
>
>In the dashboard, the expand/collapse icon is dynamic. Thus, it saves automatically into your profile. Thus, this is no longer needed in the profile. The same goes with the subscription panel with the expand/collapse icon.
>
>In order to have all this, you need to login again. And, just to be sure, you might need to force a manual refresh on each pane to retrieve the latest javascript version.