OK, a little history lesson here ... I don't feel too bad about giving a history lesson since I have been around here for ten years, now.
As far as I know, BoardMod did not 'break off' from YaBB in any sort of objection as to where it was going. It was always to be the place where new features could be -added- to the original software.
And it has pretty much always been good for that purpose, and still is. Back when we were still using the YaBB 1 series, the main software was kept really lean, and nobody who was really pushing for things saw any reason to add all the extra features to the 'main' package, but just encouraged people to use BoardMod to expand.
Then they started creating the earliest version of YaBB 2. To the best of my knowledge, that version focused on three things ... security (Ron and others, and all the hard work on the Guardian), cleaning up code (stuff that had been tweaked and tweaked and tweaked, and therefore bloated and confused and so on), and adding a very small number of mods that were seen as being so important that nobody would argue against their inclusion. Most specifically, OMario's add more smilies mod and Dave Baughman's attachments mod.
Somewhat early on, one of the biggest, most difficult to install mods got added in to the main package ... Michael's Extended Profiles mod. At the time, that was one of the two biggest, most difficult to add mods. When you have a forum and you wanted to start modding it, there were two mods that were the first you tried to muscle in, before anything else, because they were the two with the most steps, at around 100 each ... extended profiles and YaMS. (This was even before the member map was added into the YaMS package.)
As time went by, they started throwing more and more mods into YaBB, and I was (and remain) amazed at how many new mods and new features were thrown in, while there were two mods that shocked me solely by their not being added into the main build, compared to the features that were ... YaMS and the calendar mod.
I have no idea why I am typing all this. It's late, my mind is shutting down, and this seems awfully long-winded to mainly say I don't think there was any sort of annoyed split creating BoardMod, but just a well-designed division of labor planned from virtually the very beginning. With, hopefully, some interesting details added in.
Shutting up now ... sorry for rambling.
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