Well, I think it depends on your preferences.
Taverns are informative, small and do their job very well.
Big hero selection arenas which make the hero turn around nicely with scrolling text everywhere about the heroes background and spells look nice, but take up a lot of space, and are difficult to make.
Dialogs and chat commands are ugly and informative. ^_^
I like this idea.
If you have seen the fullscreen inventory can you make a hero selection like that and when you selects the unit creates a multiboard there you can read about the hero.
But I was looking around the forums for suggestions on this topics.
There is another way, Those systems where u press arrow keys and another hero pops up at your camera position, and then u press up-arrow or something to choose your hero.
I don't think I'm dealing with quite the same pressures though, at the very least its a significantly smaller system. For the time being I'm just going to put together a quick scrubby box though and hope it works good enough to not make my house toxic
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.