I have to say that I installed SMF for PGD 07 and was impressed with how easy it was to setup. The down side is, much like phpBB, its so common that a lot of trolling scripts have been developed for it and I get a LOT of spam messages that I have to sift before I can accept anything to the board.

Dom, don't know what your paying for hosting now, but I recently moved all of our clients to MOSSO and have had nothing but great experiences thus far.

On the articles side of things, there are some really good Wiki's out there and the tech has come a long way over the past few years. In fact some of the best ones I've found use FCKEditor to implement a WYSIWYG editor that would make something like an articles section much easier to contribute to.

Compo's are a great idea (as always) and I miss not having the yearly PGD to look forward to and plan for . An idea might be to have a "user contests" section that allows privileged users to create competitions, setup prizes, and ect using PGD as the hosting ground. Setup a basic framework that allows users to start, monitor, and complete the compos so you don't have to.

PS: I'm not dead yet, just overworked and underpaid.