Ever since having to move the WinExtra Community Forums from their original home on my own NNTP server to a web forum format I have been using a software from Simple Machines Forums. When I first went looking the SMF package seemed to be the best that was out there, getting plenty of plus reviews, and it helped that it was free.
In the last year though I have become dissatisfied and wanted to look elsewhere for something newer and that would at some point blend in easily with this blog. I don’t know if you have ever looked at the code behind SMF or the way themes are handled but after working with Wordpress it is a painful experience.
The additional thing that had to be dealt with was the migration of data that had accumulated over the years on the existing SMF forums. This was issue was further hampered by the fact that I was running a beta; followed by the Release Candidate, of their version 2.0.
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