[Rubber Duck]

I am not convinced that changing the Skin is going to have a big enough impact to win people over.

The main reason we chose to get away from vBulletin was to achieve Unicode searchability. This is obviously not a big issue with most at IDNFs, as clearly neither is reliability or response time.

I the latest version of vBulletin may assuage many of our earlier reservations but we really need to have Jose support to go down the road of relaunching the forum on a different programme.

I am not convinced that we need to worry too much about content as it is the collective knowledge of the members that is the key consideration, so wiping the slate and starting again might be something we have to accept. Lets not forget we are about to lose everything at IDNFs anyway, and much of it may not be greatly missed.