this is probably of little to no interest for most of you, but david just finished migrating our forum over to vanilla. it's got a little over 30000 posts and 3000 discussions, with an active userbase of about 30 people.
so, the activity is probably lower than this board, but i'm happy to report that none of the search functions bog down at all. it's clipping along.
it's a local board, and most of our users are north atlanta residents, but if you want to look, it's located at http://www.thirty5.net
homebrew! we could release the script to you guys, but it would be mostly useless, since our forum format came only from our brains. which is only 35% good.
it's working great. we managed to make the transfer mostly seamless for our users, and there haven't been many complaints, which is seriously saying something for our band of whiners.
i think the thing i'm most excited about is the part where we can potentially add new features to our forum with a very small amount of work. having done the work on our last forum entirely on our own (mostly david), nothing new got added to it until we got some insane amount of motivation. add jobs, and school, and you get a stagnant piece of software. i really look forward to what this community can accomplish.