As for your choices, I wouldn't recommend 2. There code be secuirty vunerabillities in the software, not that I am saying the phpBB team having been focusing on secuirty, its just development software often has problems, and sometimes things are just written simply to fill a gap where it would need bigger code thats going to be written later. For instance
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function getSomething()
{
//here I would look up stuff
//for now I will just make do
return DEFAULT;
}
Anyway kind of going of topic so back on topic, as any member of the phpBB team will yell down your ear, the CVS versions should not be used in a live situation and is completely unsupported and could break at any time.
The way you talk of competition suggests your a commercial organisation, if this is so maybe you can afford to pay for better forum software, but many of us just can't afford the hig price tag, especcially as I can almost guarentee if I pay for a license phpBB 3.0 will be released within a week and I will be regretting it. Plus I like the concept of Open Source software. I was thiking about contributing to an open source project when I have more free time but I am running into a lack of free time. And now I'm going off topic again so here I will end.
If you can afford to go for another forum and you think it is better than phpBB and is worth the increased price tag then go for it, however its nice you have stuck with phpBB. I stick with phpBB because it seems to work nicely, it may be basic but my forum isn't my site, my forum is part of my site. It realy does depend on what you want to use your forum for. I have seen several sites which are soley the forum, and maybe they need something more advanced. But for my purposes it is fine, and if you add too many features and do it baddly then you end up with something that is hard to use and runs slow and causes high sever load.
Anyway, good look with whatever you decide. But don't use CVS, its apparently good to play with but for anything important its a risk, it might work OK but that can't be guarenteed.
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