My problem with AF is two fold - first of all there is zero activity in the AF community - I went there and there are like 4 posts in the last few months... so your comment about it dying might be accurate...

Secondly, skinning that forum is tedious and extremely time consuming.  With the DNNForum module I could completely re-skin a site with css and images - and I could do it in a few hours.  Of course it helped that I worked on the Forum project for a few years...

I  can always tell how easy it is for someone to skin a site by checking out sample sites to see how attractive/matched/custom a forum looks relative to the site.  All I see is a change in the header bars and background colors. Almost all sites used the exact same icon sets!  And certainly nothing unique or attractive.  Sometimes bloody ugly !  (yea, yea... eye of the beholder!) ;-)

I digress... right now, I can't even get the thing running on 7.0.6.  Not sure what dependencies are hanging it up but I installed it again on a pretty clean (new) system... and everything else is running fine...  a second attempt causes the same issue:  "Please wait... Loading."  

I'm going to try it on my on-line site (7.1.0) and see what happens...

After spending 18 - 24 months on the DNN forum in order to make it easily skinnable, I can't believe that 3 years later we're back to square one... very disappointing.

Rob