When do you plan on upgrading your phpBB?

I'm not sure when I'll upgrade, I just have way too many MODs in my forum and don't feel like making them all work with 3.0. I may try a test forum though.

Not necessarily.  Most mod authors aren't developing php 3.0.  In fact, they develop separately.  So, there is a good chance that some mods won't be upgrade at all.

What do you mean?  Can you elaborate?

Some are difficult but others are not.  From what I understand, phpBB is coded slightly differently.  If a mod just changes parts of code that have not changed, then porting is easy.  Otherwise, porting can become a bit tricky.

I generally do not like using any script while it's still in beta, but I'm thinking about making an exception here.

1. I'd like to start up a new forum soon ..., hopefully by the end of the month.

2. I'd like to use phpBB again.

3. If I use phpBB, then I know that I'll need to upgrade to 3.0 very soon.  Using 2.0.x at this point is kind of counter-productive in the long term.

If you use the 3.0 beta, be warned.  The phpBB team has made it clear that they may not provide upgrade scripts from the betas.  So if you start a forum using 3.0 beta, you may be stuck using the 3.0 beta code forever.

If you create a forum using 2.0.21, the phpBB team has pledged that there will be an upgrade script that changes 2.0.21 into 3.0 final.  So it's not too bad to use version 2 now.

-Tony