John Cox has a new post today about something most people just take one look at and move on - a new PHP forum system called Vanilla.

With Vanilla we wanted to break the mold created and followed by just about every other forum on the web. We sat down and thought about what we liked, and more importantly, what we didn't like about web forums. We wanted emphasis on the discussions rather than the statistics.

I'll agree with John's comments as well - the Vanilla software does have a nice look to it. There are a few others that are similar, but here's to hoping that the Vanilla forum works as good as it looks...