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[[TC]»Pete«]

Without spammer protection, MyBB is a disaster.

We make people enter their LFS Username to ensure they're not a bot and to prove they have an CityDriving license.

Even though MyBB is easy to manage, to customise and just works for what we want, I still think it's bloated and detracts from what people want to read, the posts, without heavy modification.

I've been following the development of something called Discourse which is basically what I see as an ideal solution for keeping the focus on topic.

I just think this forum has a bit too much stuff on it now to change. Maybe I'll look into Discourse soon and see if the many advantages outweight the disadvantages of moving from MyBB (legacy).

The list of features is huge, and brilliant:

http://www.discourse.org/about/

You can pay Discourse to set it up and maintain it for you or you can fork the GitHub repository and install it on your own server yourself. For free.

The bottom line is, MyBB works just fine for tiny communities like ours. Maybe we'll move at some point, but not yet.