Threads was to be the future of the message board system however classic had some great features in it that threads does not have. It would be really nice to have all the features that classic had placed in threads.
If you can not place all those great features in threads then that tells me PHP is inferior to Perl regardless of what everyone thinks.
I do not want to start a language war here like went on between Charles and my self but I will tell you even though threads has many more features in it classic was still tops and ran smooth and perfect. Classic had some great features in it that were lost when threads came along.