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[Skyon Archer]

Not to beat this topic to death but paid hosting is the only way to go.

MyBB itself isn't hard to use, in my opinion. I am pretty good at modifying the code to achieve what I'm looking for.

I don't really care for phpBB. The ACP is junk, old, outdated and hard to use. Again, in my opinion.

SMF has a fairly easy ACP but is hard to modify.
Xenforo is hard.
Invision Community Board is hard to modify but has an easy ACP. Easy that is if you don't have all of the modules they offer. Then it's very expensive and hard to manage.

Guess I'm a MyBB fella. Like I said, with paid hosting and server access to the files, I can pretty much do anything with it.

Take Planet Nexus, for example, I have integrated a completely hand-written advertisement site with the mybb member database and forum itself. There's a lot going on in the background but it's all entwined into one another.

Yep, MyBB it is