Upgrading the forum software

[Ivor]

I see we are on an old version of the forum software, is there a reason why we haven't upgraded for a while?

Our forum does look a little dated and I think it would be nice to use some of the newer functionality provided in the latest browsers.

[Rick]

We're on SMF version 1. At some point we'll move to SMF 2, but version 1 still works well enough and is still getting security patches where necessary, while version 2 is getting still bug fixes, though it's now looking more stable. However, the gallery is next on my update list.

[Mac]

Forum software.

Just a thought, looking at Caroles recent post regarding posts being at the top or bottom ect,
I know the software that we use dosen't allow for thredded posts, but is there any free software that does,
I know that there are at least 20 different free forum software packages out there, have we thought about looking in to this.

One forum i do like is this one http://www.dpreview.com/forums/1021

although it is a custom forum designed by the host himself, i like the tree view layout, so that you can see each individual repost against the original post.

Any thoughts on this?

Mac.