Spring Cleaning...building our own forum application
At GalaxyGoo, we really need to simplify our community tools. We've got the blogs, forums software, and our own in-house discussion and project tools. It's just too complicated. Too many log-ins. So, we're going to close our forums, and beef up the simple discussion forums we built for our project pages. This way, our users will only have to deal with one log-in.
We need some feedback from the general community. From a technical stand-point, what makes forum software successful?