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I have just read through this thread and a couple of things I need to point out to everyone regarding this subject.
First, the IBF forum for XOOPS is buggy as hell (Sorry kush) and the original forum was not released under GNU.
This means that kush had to get permission from the original author (thats why the was removed from modcentral) and even if the XOOPS core team wantd to use it instead of newBB, they can't.
So far, every forum that I have used that has been made into a module has issues, this is due to the changes to the core (come time for an update! Need I say more) and that has always been a problem for me.
Ok, So newbb is not the best forum out there and lacks many functions that other forums take for granted, but the one point about this module is the fact you do not have to hack at the core to get it to work.
As someone pointed out, it does use notifications which most forums would kill for.
At the end of the day, it is not about replacing newbb, but enhancing it with the features that people want or use third party hackons that require the author to update each time a new version of XOOPS comes out.