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nextBBS direction: please give your input

Offline stressed-geek

nextBBS direction: please give your input 05-01-2008 at 10:33 PM

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I know very little about PHP and the technical issues you address, but I can give you input from a user's view.  I think speed and ease of use is what's the most important to folks who post on message boards.  And also something that looks appealing/modern, but is still relatively easy to use.   As it is right now, I think Nextbbs does a great job doing that.  Reasons I like it are:
1. It looks sharp.
2. It runs pretty fast.
3. It can be customized.
4. There is a good support community (!)
5. The real-time chat feature.
The only negative I had, was the absence of the "traditional" login/password boxes.  When I upgraded my board to Nextbbs, the board members had a heck of a time figuring out where to login.  But got that squared away now.  I don't know how difficult it would be from a programming/code writing point of view, but that would be a suggestion of maybe what to integrate in the future.
Otherwise I like the software just like it is; it's a good balance between being visually appealing & "modern" looking and being functional.  
If you did decide to re-do everything, could we still use the version we have in place without having to upgrade?
Thank you for what I think is a great forum software.  It's amazing what you folks can do.
-Mia
 