I was not trying to be glib or anything mentioning the other site. It was just an example of the forum code that is out there which can be very quickly adapted.
Indeed. And they did very quickly adopt this forum code when the old site was destroyed by a hacker at Christmas.
I think we all know that there are forums out there that do much whizzier things, like avatars, signatures, member ranks, PMs, threaded conversations, voting on posts etc etc - but those things just get in the way of a decent conversation and the lack of them is one of the reasons I keep coming back here.