I think you should use the right tool for the right job...
Reference material goes best on a web cms like wikimedia or wordpress. Cramming a bunch of manuals/app notes on a forum gets unwieldy. The downside of putting everything on the forum is you end up with a bunch of stickies at the top - which, I think, is really bad... Having to scroll though these every time you visit a forum to see "what's new" is not good...
My goal would be to have wordpress for main page and move to something for the forum that is up to date. We are on a very old version of vbulletin and we don't want to move to their newer version. It isn't good...
jeff
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