Quote Originally Posted by WILL
GameDev.net has this sort of system in place and it seems to work well. I like the idea too. Problems is and I'll be blatantly honest about it, all the CMS software out there suck so bad at ease of implementation that using any one thing and trying to get everything you want out of any of them it like trying to ballroom dance with a mad horny bull. Whatever you try in the end your getting... well you know.

On the other hand doing it from scratch is also a royal pain as the list of features it always longer than the amount of time anyone has available to complete it all. So it's a rock and a hard place. Maybe if the PGD team hired a contractor to do the work, but that would take some serious donation money so...
Surely, we could get by with a vBulletin installation couple with MediaWiki for the library. No fancy theme customisation as it's a pain in the ass for upgrades. The only problem then is porting content to the library. That way, we would only have to maintain a vBulletin licence.