1.) I posted in a talkback thread (I'm using core theme if that matters) and I quoted an article, bolded some text and hid the linked to the article in the title while also changing the title size to 3.
It applied the bold automatically in the quick reply window, I never saw the [ b][ /b] tags after I finished typing them.
I put a [ url][ /url] tag in the title to the article, and as soon as I finished typing it, it turned into a link in the reply window. same with changing the size, the [ size][ /size] tags disappeared and the text changed size in the quick reply window.
That is a good feature to have sometimes, since I don't have to waste time with a post preview, but I had made a small error in the [ /url] placement and wanted to change it, but now I'm not sure how since I can't see the forum code i used to do it.
2.) Autopager wasn't working with with the new default nor the core themes.
I'm pretty sure that's an problem with AP more than the site itself. I haven't tried changing back to the old theme to see if it still works though.
3.) This isn't NWR 2.0? This was just a cosmetic change? could we change the theme all this time and no one knew?