And Sky, I am not one to knock another forum, as I have also used all the big ones and most of the free ones from either a testing standpoint, integration standpoint, or just to see how well they ran my existing data.
The above blurb you noted is fron phpBB2 - and while it is a great free forum and one I would consider using if I was not a lifetime member around here...the code (in my humble non-coder opinion) is not nearly as clean or efficient as Threads.
While it stacks up feature-wise and mod-wise, try it out on a busy forum, you might be surprised at the results.
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