A year and a half ago when I first installed IntegraMod, I was convinced that we were at par or better than the best BBs out there. Now a year and a half later as I examine one of the major competitors and their features, it appears we have lost alot of ground. Now understandably, that's because of the work put into the new release, as well as work put into phpBB upgrades, and being short-handed.
But are we becoming intent with what is soon becoming a vanilla system? Remember, the features we have now where top of the line 18 months ago. Now these features are standard in some systems such as v-B, who in the last year has incorporated a tremendous amount of features, which I recently discovered by making posts on a forum using that system. I'm only being honest when I say that I was wowed by the enormity (and complexity) of their system, which makes this look vanilla, in many regards.
Yes, I know they have paid developers. What I'm asking is what can we as a community do to step up and make this system better than what it is and put ourselves once again in the forefront of bulletin board systems. Are will we remain complacent with what is slowly becoming average vanilla features?