I don't really care about visual variety. And as far as differentiating staff from normal users, the "Staff online now" feature of xenforo is actually really useful for that. In posts, it's obvious by the banner. I honestly wouldn't mind one way or the other if custom colors came back.
I figured this is the best place this should go. Not really a missing feature, but probably something that should be taken care of anyway.
One of the Community Coordinators or Admins (probably community coordinator, I'm sure the admins have enough on their hands and it seems like more of a...
It's not possible in Xenforo by intentional design. The thread URLs in Xenforo are designed so the post number anchor is incorporated with the page number (which means links wouldn't direct to the right posts between separate users). Rightfully there should be a way to design it so threads don't...
Mentioned this in the tech suggestions thread as well. This add-on seems like a good idea: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/double-click-forum-icons-to-mark-forum-as-read.2298/