Yup. I had pretty much the same problems, except I didn&#x27;t even get to installing because the requirements put me off.<p>I just wanted something that sucks less than PHPBB or SMF, you know? But this thing mainly seems more bloated, and the live demos didn&#x27;t really quite convince me of the &quot;sucks less&quot; part either.<p>One thing I haven&#x27;t even been able to test yet, once you have it running, how much is there to configure in order to tone it down? Because if you want to run a forum for pretty much anything but a tech audience, I would like to get rid of all the &quot;dynamic&quot; and &quot;interactive&quot; javascript stuff. Because it really makes it <i>less</i> interactive&#x2F;dynamic for people on old, low-powered computers. They need basic HTML full page reloads (assuming the HTML is somewhat lean--leaner than PHPBB&#x2F;SMF preferably :) ).<p>Because the unique thing about forums, that still gives them relevance in the 2010s, is that you can gather a community with extremely specialized niche knowledge. If the person who knows everything about, I dunno, stained glass dyes, psychogeography or uh Sumerian breakfast recipes, just happens to have a really old machine you don&#x27;t tell them to upgrade or suck it, because he or she may be one of the only people in the world with the particular expert niche-in-niche knowledge that brings invaluable quality to the forum, much more than having a shiny slick UI that looks buttersmooth on a new laptop.