A way of telling when someone is typing on a thread

What Kana said is pretty much it. As an administrator, I have the ability to edit minor things on the forum such as the background images, text and box colors, organization of the boards, etc. But more in depth stuff like that is beyond what I can do. Only freeforums can implement something like that through programming it in their code. That's unfortunately something I, nor anyone else outside of the staff of Freeforums has access to.