The software

[TERROJA]

I was just wondering if you folks have considered converting to phpBB or SMT. This software looks good but there are a few inconveniences, and some other board solutions are really worth the download. You can even convert everything in your forum to another format.

Just my two cents.

[Osmose]

I've thought about this several times myself, and the conclusion I've come to is that it would take a massive effort to move over everything, and if we decided to do it from a blank slate and just have everyone's posts reset, it would still take a lot of time to reintegrate - the forums are tied in the the generators and complete resources - you register for everything on the site by registering for the forums.

I know there's mods for everything, but currently we have no particular problems that make the time and work required really worth it.

[WarxePB]

I think that using a hand-coded forum makes us "unique" in the sense that there's no board like us on the net, and as Moose said, everything's integrated. Of course, we could easily integrate, say, a phpBB with the generators and CR, but it really just isn't worth the time.

Your suggestion is valid, though. There are several downsides to a homemade forum, and if we have some sort of fatal flaw in the code that can't be easily fixed, we would have to switch to another system.

[TERROJA]

To be honest I've only seen one thing which might need some attention, and it's very minor. Occasionally when I attempt to post something, or when I attempted to register or anything like that, hitting the back button on the browser after I recieved an error message of some sort resulted in the 'OK' button not responding to clicks.

But I'm very impressed either way.