Toven and I are both involved in this new version of the board. The concept itself is my idea, something to use here as sort of a test to see if the software might one day be commercially viable. Toven does all the coding, and he's been begging me for months, literally, to give the board a visual makeover. I might even do this one day.

The idea is as such: The message board is, ideally, very similar to vBulletin in functionality, with the added benefits of real-time behavior. It is also to be designed in a way that makes it almost completely modular right down to the individual user's level. The finished version of the board would allow the user to select a style-set, as our board does now... but it would also allow the user to create their own, if they desired. The user would also be able to dictate how the board's layout would appear, as well as which of the (conceptually) many features would or would not be present and active.

Also, the operations would occur in real-time. You could watch new posts appear while viewing the main page, see the Who's Online list populate and de-populate, edit your posts in any thread immediately and without having to trigger anything.

The present version has a long way to go, but I hope that in the end, the board would be no more or no less complex than you would have it look for yourself.