Hey guys... Lynn and I have been chatting some, and it looks like it's time to move past PHPBB as a forum.. The main site will stay the same, just the forums will change.

When we opened this site, it looked like the software that runs this place was running towards stable, and would be there very shortly. While it works pretty well, it's throwing errors that we can't trace, as well as not allowing some of the functionality that makes it worthwhile (Being able to email posts).

With this being said, I think that we need to migrate to another system. I have a couple of requirements in whatever software we use.

1) Super level of stability, and a strong community.
2) Integrated userbase, so that we don't have to log in
multiple times.
3) All the functionality that you guys want.
4) I can bring over all the posts from this forum, into the new one.
Since this is a modified phpbb, that's not as easy as it seems.
This system uses different user tables, which makes most scripts
useless.

That can be a pretty tall order to fill.. I'm going to put up a poll on this post with the current pieces of software that are under consideration, look at them and vote on them, if you have experience with them.

All but one (VBulletin) are freeware. If you have another suggestion, let me know and I'll add it too. I have a favorite right now that I'm leaning towards, but I want to get input from the community.. After all, this site is user oriented.

If anyone has experience in PHP/MySQL, and wants to help.. Let me know..