I'm finding all the forums modules to have an interface that's too involved for our uses as a translation-help forum. All the spiffy info management elements for various topics and threads, and hiding old posts and the like just make things complicated and unnecessarily click-heavy for our purposes.

It seems as if all the forum/BB modules are of the same complex-interface type. I'd love a simple forum module that just lists posts LIFO with responses grouped (like this: http://forum.dict.cc/)!

Anyone interested in creating that? Thanks!

Alama

Rather than creating a new forum from scratch, why not visit http://www.xoopsforge.com - and perhaps give some feedback how CBB could be improved on the interface side?

It doesn't need to be a new forum fork...
hummm, maybe just a new interface.
As modules use templates you are able to modify the interface
the way its most convinient to your project.
Remove some navigation options, change colors, etc. can help you to get an user friendly interface. While change the default feature's placement may be an information architecture challenge task to achieve.

P.S. Check xhnewbb forum module, for "effective simplicity"!