Cute Message Board Format

Message boards tend to be so boring...this one is not! One of the features is the "pulse" where new posts appear dynamically. Also, big avatars and speech bubbles make it really playful. It's a forum for Gaia Online, a super-popular MMOG. It looks like they're using heavily modified PHPBB

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/extended-discussion/the-cause-of-popularity/t.32362425/

don't read the conversation, just look at the format!

here's the main forum, http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/index.php