ldopa.net

Lussumo has just released version 1.0 final of their new open-source discussion board CMS, “Vanilla“. I played around with it the other night, and so far, it looks like a winner — prettier, more functional, and more easily extensible than phpBB. Most impressively, it’s got a simplicity and elegance of design that shows all the way through, from the front end UI to the back end code.

Mark my words, this app is going to become the “WordPress” of discussion boards. What I particularly respect is the decision to “one-down” the competition by modularizing the add-ons so, much like Firefox, the software can be as simple or as complex as the administrator desires. That’s smart, insightful and thoroughly modern thinking in software design.

~jeff