Most forums today you will see they are built on PHPBB which has become the defacto standard that everyone uses .. I am sure if Mudcat was starting out fresh that is probably what it would have and hence all the modern functionality. The problem trying to move in that direction is over a decade of historical research that has been collected in custom table structures. A software developer would have to write scripts to copy all of the history into the new table structures that are used by PHPBB. That would be incredibly expensive or time consuming for someone to donate their time. But the Cat functions and does a great job of it also .. I actually would hate to see it look like every other Forum on the net .. takes the tradition out of it ... and we are all about tradition for sure.