Epochtalk is extremely complicated especially on the admin side of things. That includes moderation/accountability, etc. For comparison, forums like Discourse have been in development a lot longer than us.
Take a look at the issues we have on the Github and try it out or something. Note, that the dependencies that are being developed are also under the entire epochtalk organization.
I feel like a broken record because these questions have been answered over and over. Apologies for not having anything more central and easier to digest than the Github repos.
Really? Is beta.bitcointalk.org legit the latest version? It's been 3 years and this is it? What is it being coded in... assembly?
If I remember correctly, the budget for the site was in the tens of thousands of BTC. At today's value, it'd probably be a $50MM bid. I'm thinking the admins were swindled in the bid... I think it should go back open or at least make a more open competition for the new software.
Edit: Found the source. It's freaking Javascript... that's why. Who would want that ungodly mess to manage? ew.
Edit2:
https://github.com/epochtalk/epochtalk for those that can't google.