When I was rewriting the Subscription system, I considered displaying subscribers. But I ultimately decided that you should be able to subscribe in secret.

Displaying just the count seems like a good idea though.

However, once I crunch through some more generic forum features (like being able to archive/delete PMs), I do want to ponder more roleplay-specific features like first-class support for Roleplays and their participants. 

For example:

- "Joining"/"Leaving" roleplays. Or "retiring" from a roleplay (so it drops out of your active roleplays list). Maybe everyone lost interest or your character got killed off.
- Displaying the number of active roleplays you're a part of under your avatar in posts
- Seeing an official participant count next to roleplays and, when clicking into the Roleplay, a list of the participants
- Being able to go to someone's profile and see which roleplays they're a part of

With that sort of Roleplay-has-many-Roleplayers metadata, there are a lot of interesting things I can do.

I've wanted to do something like this since 2009, but I was too noob of a developer to get it to work performantly on vBulletin. Nowadays this is a feature I can certainly take on, but it takes a lot of thought. Especially coming up with implementations that don't complicate the system or the user experience.

I mean, that's really the entire point of coding the Guild from scratch - so that I can develop these sorts of features.