I don't want to suggest that I'm knocking the current system completely and I certainly appreciate the work behind the scenes here to keep it running...(BTW, the RSS fees were always wonky for me. They behaved like universal RSS feeds instead of forum specific ones...)
phpBB3 is nice and I know Mike has mentioned that we are considering that as well, but overall I'm still finding
vB a bit more robust specifically for searching, which as a Moderator I tend to use a lot.
As far as gaining more members, I agree--that is the point! I've always told Mike that we should strive to be the CDMA version of XDA developers. We're making some great strides as evidenced by out 6700 ROM cookers
So I would like to keep attracting people and talent.
We could also institute some donation system or like what (gasp) Sprintusers has, the
Premium Membership, to help offset costs of instituting either
vB or something else, plus server costs. We should start modeling ourselves like TreoCentral, which has a front page for stories/reviews/news, a store, etc. We shouldn't stay just a message board forever, imo.