New Forums Software?

[djensen]

I’m considering new, simpler, forum software. This is one of the top candidates:

http://getvanilla.com/

Here’s an example:
http://lussumo.com/community/

What do you think? Would you miss all of the features? Or would you prefer a faster performing site? Faster to load and faster to read.

[DarthMaximus]

I would probably miss all the features.
I’m not familar with that one you linked to or how customizable it is, but it just looked too plain.  :-)

[frimmel]

Yes it was really plain yet somehow managed to look busy.

[Jennifer]

This may just be a natural resistance to change that all humans feel at one level or another, but I happen to enjoy our site the way it is.  If any changes need to be made, I would work on a color and watermark scheme that resembled the game.  Maybe watermark the maps for each game thread or something.

[frimmel]

@Cmdr:

This may just be a natural resistance to change that all humans feel at one level or another, but I happen to enjoy our site the way it is.  If any changes need to be made, I would work on a color and watermark scheme that resembled the game.  Maybe watermark the maps for each game thread or something.

I think he was mostly looking for software that ran/loaded faster. I don’t think it was an aesthetics issue. Was it?

[djensen]

Yes. We can fix some of the aesthetics issues.