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(06-15-2010 08:42 AM)Harry Wrote:  is currently run totally off donations and is covered for atleast the next few month's

Then you have plenty of headroom to spare for a small subscription payment.

(06-15-2010 08:42 AM)Harry Wrote:  In either case it is not a great incentive to switch forum software when you don't have these options.

There are MANY reasons not to switch forum software.  I really don't think your idea that people can easily change between them is quite justified.
Switching has all sorts of issues, from old URLs breaking due to the new script using different filenames, to your users being unfamiliar with the system.  Forum conversion does occur, but for most people, not the way you put it.

I can take your point that not having this in the forum software itself can be a disincentive to initially chose MyBB (after all, why pay when you can get for free?), but claims that this is going to be heavily detrimental to its future success is a bit far and beyond...