I wanted to mention the fact the new user PM warning, where it says I can't send private messages until I have 5 posts, is extremely annoying. I'm not pointing this out because I won't quickly post here five times - I'm reading quite a bit and growing increasingly interested in the community. It's just that at times (on mobile) the alert covers half the page and I can easily see how this would discourage many "lurkers" from wanting to log in at all. With all the various UI bars and menus stacking up it's almost annoying to read. Besides, why would we need to know that at all? Who sends PMs before even posting 5 times? Couldn't you just pull up the message when they try to send one?

I know it's not a big issue, it's just an easily preventable one.