My humble opinion is that the current forum is perfect. For me, anyways. I don\'t mind a few small \"quirks\" with stuff like searching and new post notifications, and I don\'t have any major problems. Although I do NOT like IPB for a small reason -] it\'s either just a trial, or it costs money, which sort of goes against my idea of software (excluding OSX [great OS, IMHO, once you setup it so you can drop onto root ;-) ], there is NO non-free piece of software I own OR use).
But hey, it\'s just my opinion...