I seriously plan to migrate from VN to Joomla but the biggest problem of all is to retain user accounts from IBP and to use one login for the Joomla and IPB. Problem is also authentication or in other words 'salt'. Salting is a method of giving your password extra encryption, invision does it but joomla does not! both systems convert your password to an MD5 hex password based on a random number but invision takes it a step further and MD5's your MD5 password based on a value (the salt) so thus your password has been doulbed MD5'd. So if you already have IPB forum with users and want to integrate those accounts to Joomla you'll have to use bbpixel integrator which costs 20$ Also if you have two DB's (one for forum and the other for Joomla ), you'll have to merge them into one DB. I'll try this migration in an hour or two and I can post you results if you want. I should get this: -Powerful with all features of both Forum and Portal, bbpixel Plugin does not remove any function of them. -Users just need to register thru Forum and still use the other part without having to register again or login twice. - Their private information are saved on both Portal and Forum databases. They can change their information via Forum User Control Panel -Easy to manage all users through Forum Admin Control Panel. -Can uninstall one of them (Portal, Forum) and/or run them as independent systems. As for the skin, I had to pay it 50$, but I feel no sorry, it's really great and professionaly made.. Wish me luck...