why does this app need phone state and identity permission ?
It is a requirement of the ad provider. They need it to guard against click fraud and to accurately report number of unique users etc. to their clients.
Regarding the login questions:
If you enter your login once, it will be saved when you open the post form for other threads. You should never have to enter it more than once unless you uninstall the app or change your password. The interface for this will get better as we add more features to the forum. Right now, thread posting is the only thing that required being logged in so we just show it there.
If anyone has other questions or suggestions, keep posting them. Our development is largely driven by user feedback.
I will say that improving forums is high on our list of things to do and we hope to have updates to address that very soon. For now, only viewing and replying to existing threads is possible. Posting new threads, quoting when replying, and better tools for moving around large threads are high on the priority list in that section but we don't have an ETA just yet.
Josh.