We've migrated the forum system from PHPBB to Fireboard! Main problem with PHPBB is that it's tedious to upgrade especially when your forum is heavily moded. Other than that, it's just too popular and therefore made it a target for spambots. Just google a generic phpbb forum url and you'll get all sites with phpbb installed and frankly speaking we're tired of having to deal with those pesky spams.

The migration was successful. We transferred all the users and the forum categories and postings to the new fireboard. BUT after cleaning up the user database, we accidentally deleted a lot of active forumners user accounts!! (including mine! LOL). So if you suddently can't seem to log in using your regular username and password... please... just sign up again. You won't be seing your old forum postings though.. all that has been deleted.. are definitely gone. I didn't made any backups. 
 
Fireboard is pretty new. It's based on Joomlaboard which if I'm not mistaken was based on SMF (simple machine forum). It's a forum component (not a bridge) for joomla and mambo system. The interface is simple and since we're running a CMS driven site, the light weight forum system is good enough for regular chatting purposes.

However, Fireboard is still in development. Yesterday we realized that it took more than 15 seconds to load the forum index page whereby it only took 3-4 secs to load a phpbb index. We found a fix for that and it shoud load faster than yesterday.

Well that's the progress at this moment. check out the new forum! will load more stuff this weekend.