[qq]It's not vB's fault that someone for some strange unknown reason decided to store files in the db. [/qq]

It's the fault of VB programmers for making it the default option.

[qq]If you think the current phpBB admin CP is anything close to the vB3 admin CP, I'm sorry Unne, but you've got to be either blind, ignorant, bias or generally lacking intellect in how to operate an admin CP, and I know you're not blind, I know you're not lacking intellect, so it's either bias or ignorant - and I can't imagine you'd be ignorant.[/qq]

Could you give specific examples of what the VB CP does that the phpbb CP doesn't, please? You said usergroups. phpbb does those; it's under Group Admin. phpbb doesn't have an inline template editor; I don't like that, so I think that's a good thing. If phpbb2 is adding an inline editor, then I will say that's a bad thing. phpbb looks different, yes. It doesn't have tons of Javascript eye-candy; I consider that a good thing, because half the time VB's javascript breaks the Back button in my browser when I'm working the CP.

What else is it lacking specifically? "Specifically" being the key word here.

EDIT: So far as not liking inline web-form template editors, I don't like it because text editors are so much more powerful. Compared to using vim and a simple FTP program (ncftp), writing code in a web form is like trying to type blindfolded with my toes. Syntax highlighting, progressive searching, embedded Perl regex search-and-replace, auto-indenting, etc. If you use Notepad to write code or something, then a web form might save you some time. I'm too used to hitting :wqALTF1uparrowENTERoENTERALTF3i for example.