Hey Andy, just wondered if you had a list of features that you plan to work, time permitting for these nice forums. 

 Like you, I have searched for a proper answer and not found any that were really acceptable.  Even started writing my own, but never enough time.  Lately, I have been using bbpress for my sites because its very extensible for my needs with the plugin interface.  Unfortunately, as a beta (using that term liberally) its very, very young and keeping up with a moving target is tough. Other options just dont integrate well with wp.

Is there a plugin type interface with your forums or do mods need to be to the core files themselves?  Or planned? No issue with making mods myself, its just harder to upgrade in the future.

The one key element that I see missing from yours that I would desire would be the private forums one called out here:

http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/index.php?pagename=support-forum&forum=11&topic=127

After a quick 5 minute (maybe) gander through the code, it seems doable (open mouth, insert foot?).  Just wondered if you had it in progress.

Also, are your forum users integrated with the wp users?  Guess I could go look, but the thought just ocurred to me as I was ready to close this post as yours dont appear to be integrated… 

Thanks…

Mr Papa 

Outstanding! Guess its time for me to install on one of my test sites and play around…

wasnt sure you would remember with all the other traffic here… and bad on me as I did read that page, but didnt scroll all the way down to the bottom and see the 1.7 additions as the top mentioned the key points and still talked about 1.6.. if I had, I would have seen the private stuff maybe a reversal of the change log?

Thanks!

Mr Papa

I was trying to find that old post so I knew my login instead of posting as guest, but failed…  being at work, wouldnt help to have it sent to me since it would go home…