Administration is much simpler than Yuku. Much less fussy. Much clearer and cleaner. I want to make certain that I understand the security features before I go live.
This new board will NOT be threaded where messages and replies are structured like a tree. All replies will go into a flat list.
I did some investigation and found that SMF is the most well regarded open source board, and there are no plans at this time to implement threading on it. The developers of SMF claim that threading reduces speed considerably.
Personally, after I thought about it awhile I realized that threading is overrated. For example, on this board, you have to continually refer to the tree view at the page bottom in order to understand who is replying to who. So in reading a thread, you can't really see the thread parentage unless you refer to another part of the page.
It is quite easy for users to handle the lack of threading. Just quote the message that you are replying to.
One admin feature of SMF that is really intriguing is the ability to split and paste message threads. So we can consolidate several threads into one as needed, or handle thread drift by splitting.
