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For what it's worth, after looking at the mybb and smf tests; also, finding a few phpbb based sites to look at, I find the smf format the most user friendly for viewing. I like vBulletin the best with the Forums and Last Post columns side by side. The smf format is 1st runner up with Thread counts and Post counts consolidated into one column between the other two. It most closely resembles what we're used to. The mybb and phpbb have separate columns for those counts distancing the other two more important (IMHO) columns.
The appearance is what we have to live with everyday while other features are used intermittently and I'd rather work around any disparities in other features than sacrifice easy viewing.
Perhaps if smf is found to be seriously lacking in features, a fully completed conversion would be a good staging platform to go to another BB like phpbb down the road (I haven't looked into that).
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