The beta is a joke, right? What features are there that required spending hundreds of thousands of dollars over picking any old forum software platform? Was the feature called "sweet kickbacks"?
Ignorant statement right here. The money was well spent and theymos had every right to use it for whatever he wanted to. The new forum is much better than what we have right now.
+1 Totally ignorant.
Not "hundreds of thousands of dollars," MILLIONS of dollars.
Pretty small amount if the group of developers that you're hiring isn't half brain dead.