Glad to be a part of this awesome giveaway. Shared on Twitter.
Here's what I believe can make MT 2017 even more awesome:
A DEVELOPERS section
Option to SHARE posts (if not any post, then the main post eg. the 1st post of a news). This can help spread MT knowledge to more no. of people. Maybe get more members for MT too.
Scrollable 'Latest Replies' and 'Latest Threads' (say 7-10 entries)
LOGO Refresh + A smaller MT header on Homepage (desktop+mobile view)
A UI refresh. The UX from current theme and layout is already spectacular.
Notification count on Browser tab
Improved search (+1)
Clicking on a conversation (with no unread count) also should bring the latest page
New section for websites/services (+1)
Sectioned war-room (+1)
Remove addition of profile post likes from the global counter
Minimum requirement to enter giveaway(+1)
Rename 'Malware Vault' somehow to include 'TEST' keyword for newbies to get idea
COMPARISON TABLE for AVs (+1)
Enhanced co-ordination for MalwareHub testing (for each month-cycles). This will help create comparison tables for past months.
In Personal details --> along with the option to select one's AV (eg. Kaspersky) from the drop-down list, user can have an option to add some quick string example "VDS". Hence, the profile card of users (shown beside one's posts) will show "Main Protection: Kaspersky + _VDS_" instead of just showing "AV: Kaspersky" (Indeed, profiles include details of RT s/w etc but many use an AV + extra primary protection like a lockdown s/w. This, if shown in profile cards in short, will be more intuitive to other users rather than just showing AV)
DELETE post (within 15/30 sec, providing reason) (+1)