The Shrine

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I'd like to finish up the features that I'm working on, release a final version, and approach the message board in a different fashion. I'd like to grab another GNU message board and add the features from RPGBoard missing on the other, instead of visa-versa. I'm way behind on my feature set, but there are a lot of features on this board that aren't found anywhere else. I'd like to make sure those features don't get lost.

The codebase is a very real issue, too. It's still in standard Perl, slow, buggy, and sloppy. I know a ton more about Perl than I did 7-8 years ago. I'd like the totally rewrite RPGBoard, but I really don't feel up to doing that monstrous of a project, and it would just seem that I'm re-inventing the wheel, anyway. The baseline forum that I would fork needs to be:

<i>GNU Public License
Written in Perl (strangely rare these days, with PHP dominating the market)
Mod_Perl compatible (or at least written in "use strict" code)
A powerful enough feature set that I don't have to completely rewrite the thing
A nice, professional design</i>

YaBB seems like a good choice, but I'm open to suggestions. It's hard to find a good candidate, though. A lot of them are either too simple, non-GNU pay boards, or written in PHP.

Questions? Comments? Flames?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>That sounds like a reasonable decision, but I know nothing about any opensource MBs. If you do it, maybe talk to the people heading that project, they might be interested in eventually patching your features into their version.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I'm still debating about how I'm going to go about and do it. There are so many add-ons for YaBB that I can virtually build a new version from the add-ons. Of course, it's in patch form, so I'll have to start hand-patching the code after a while.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>What about a parrot based board?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>A what?</div>