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Diri, I really don't understand your reaction. By now this forum seems to be very snappy to me. Unless your test forum has several hundred consecutive sessions, 500 subforums and over a million post, there can be no comparison.

Well, I believe this has been discussed in several topics already. phpBB3 has a plugin concept for key infrastructure functions and a hook concept for CMS integration. Also, I'm aware of a few approaches hiding core changes by using a shiny admin interface for patch files - that doesn't make them an...