Atheist Forums Must Change

[KevinM1]

Usually, because writing your own is a PITA even with modern frameworks like Symfony, Laravel, etc., and the intellectual problem a forum represents has been solved by existing solutions.  New forum software, like, say, Vanilla, tends to simply be an iterative step made as a response to the perceived flaws in the older sofware.  

Basically, unless you're learning or making an attempt to make (for all intents and purposes) a better wheel, sticking with what's proven to work is your best bet.

Unless you're talking WordPress.  That shit needs to die in a fire.

You'll be picking on my Joomla next Kev. Hehe

Hey, nothing wrong with fast food sw is there?, if it does the job for the masses...

I haven't looked at Joomla in probably 10 years, back before I knew what I was doing. If I had to go prepackaged CMS, I'd probably go Drupal since it's based on Symfony (or, at least it's supposed to be... dunno if they actually completed the migration) since it's what I (potentially) know.

Fast food software makes sense when the client doesn't need anything special. My biggest problem with it is that oftentimes what the client wants and what's available via add-ons don't quite mesh. I figure that if I'm going to have to muck with the code under the hood in order to give the client what they want, I'd rather just write my own code than make a bunch of bandaid hacks. Been there, done that, didn't save me any time in the long run.