depablo wrote on May 1^st, 2012 at 9:40am:

I noticed that revelation as well, and yet, SMF is clearly back on track again. Their obvious success, and comeback from what could have been it for them makes me believe that YaBB can have the same comeback if there's the will to make it happen.

But seriously, in reality YaBB's future is dependent on one person; Corey. The success of his personal life has gotten in the way of YaBB's success, and good for him and his family, but that's the bottom line.

Since 2002 I've enjoyed using YaBB, and it's still an active forum because I appreciate, and want to keep the tweaks I've given it over the years.

However, I recently installed SMF to mirror our YaBB forum just to see what it can do, and the difference is like night and day in terms of giving members and guests a forum that's so wonderfully comprehensive.

And you should see what SMF has in store for its future even while it regularly upgrades in a seamless fashion its current product.

Staying with YaBB is going to be really difficult for me. After all, I feel married to it, so I don't want to leave it behind. But then, I can't let my bias allow members of a community I've built since 1997 to suffer simply because I'm being selfish about my loyalty to YaBB.

What I might do is to transition over to SMF for the benefit of our membership, but keep our YaBB forum as it is so that it can function as an archive. That way, all the links from the main pages of our site will still work.

While looking up older YaBB forums, I noticed that a lot of former users have switched over to SMF. There are even some people here who are relatively new to YaBB, and yet, they've recently made the switch to SMF as well.

But then, it kind of makes sense since SMF is really a souped up version of YaBB.  

I'm really conflicted about YaBB and need relationship advice.  

xnoddyx wrote on May 30^th, 2012 at 2:13pm:

I had moved mine to SMF only to find out that I regreted it. The move was very easy going to SMF but I didn't care for it once I had switched. Luckily, I was able to open my YaBB board back up in time before many new registrants had resistered on the SMF board. (not very active forum)

As for modding, I kind of like the way it's done in YaBB. When you run into a problem and have to do something manually, by having to play around with the code it helps in learning the code. Not to mention, it feels like an acomplishment when you are done.

For me, moving my forum back to YaBB could be that I just don't like change. Who knows? I do know that I will be here unless some problem arises in the future that forces me to move. With as small as my forum has remained, I don't see that happening in the near future. Hopefully the new version will be complete soon thus nipping any problems before they can start.