henke37

It's hard to know when he is in sarcasm mode if he uses numbers larger than the global human population.

Given that the main database engine (MySQL) already have table splitting in beta, it's not that impossible right now.

No, it wouldn't.

With a linking table.

Hopefully v 3 will have no comma separated strings in the database.

Last time I saw a forum do joinable groups, it was a failure. No real discussion happened in the forums. I do not concider this something worth having in the main code.

I have a suggestion: get a real chat server. Http is not suitable for this kind of realtime communication.

Personally, I went with a stack & statemachine based parser. And if you look at the bug reports about the existing parser, you will soon realize that it has a tendency to break one thing when they fix another. It's a bunch of duct-taped together hacks. About hacks, look at the statics, most, if not all latest vulnerabilities are due to flaws in the parser.

Completely reimplemented bbcode engine that doesn't use regexes.

Exactly, embeding flash or java doesn't count as it being php.

Trust me, ipb can not do live chats. The best it can do is what it already does, letting people post messages and then read them. Php is not live. Php is restricted by the limitations of http. The biggest limitation is that http is request based. A http server can not send data to the client that the client didn't ask for.

Quick idea: If there is a session ID in the url, add a meta element that bans robots from indexing the page.