Why does yahoo use such low quality software for their news message boards?

Question

Why does yahoo use such low quality software for their news message boards?

Answer 1

They used what was availible to them or custom wrote something instead of using PhpBB a free and likely the most common forum software I see  or one of the other very good free or inexpensive forum suites out there such as vbulliten. Invisionfree offers one as well. Perhaps the limitation is all of the forum software out there that I have seen in use are php based except for an ancient Cold Fusion forum that you see still used every once in a while. Cold Fusion would require an expensive liscence and phassle. PHP could easily handle the load, would be free and any web developer who cannot work in PHP should not claim to be a web developer today.  I would gladly set thier forums up for free if they are interested. They wouldn't have to pay me. The only thing that would take long is using the Yahoo answers membership database for user logins.  A day at the most of custom coding to get that working and a half day installing and creating forums as well as permissions and moderation ques.

Answer 2

dunno