I might be sounding a bit dense here but what precisely is wrong with how things work at the moment? Admittedly we could do with some new members but aside from that, well, we can read and write forum posts cant we? What more do people want?
Its more an issue of the server its on, its by no means reliable or giving the forums any long term security. It really needs to come off.
If it comes off, unless we use Jforum again
then we need a PHP alternative.