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Looks professional and works well.

A question: how did you achieve the full SEF URL's for forums and topics? 

ie http://www.piwo.org/forum/t51-Kocioc-za … zelny.html
instead of something like
http://www.piwo.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=17086

Hmmm.  I don't mean to be too critical, but perhaps you may have a problem.

A flat, colour and essentially style-less forum design like the one you have built probably won't inspire many good graphic designers to join up, I think.   

Design communities are a very fussy and critical lot and will be hard to attract unless you have a forum design that turns them on.

I suggest adding a bit more zing to your design if you want good designers to join. There are plenty of good styles on punres that, for example, would be a good jumping off point for developing a more funky look and feel for your forum.

Have a look at a punBB forum like http://macthemes2.net/forum to see what good graphic designers might like to see in a design-oriented punBB forum...

Or check out some of the other impressive punbb sites you can see in, for example:

http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=12691&p=2

The competition is tough but there sure is a lot to learn from some of those other forums re great typography, CSS, layout and graphics.

Very well put together. Wow, lots of members too.

The  "/dev/null" forum - how did you set that up to auto-remove posts?

True. This sort of usage of domain names is rather parasitic and most such sites (like phpbb.org) are just junk / click bait. And I agree that domain names can be important.

But there is such a huge galaxy out there in the Internet space formed by all the permutations of wrong clicks and typos and dumb search results and so on that really relate very little to anything specifically important - domain names or whatever - that it is hard to begrudge people capitalising on that stream of eyes and clicks. Especially when the rules allow it.

What I hate though is people who do it behind your back - ie those registrars who will sit trash ad-filled pages on your parked domains or domain related DNS errors, and make it look as if you've gotten down in the gutter with them...

What was/is the traffic like to that domain?

http://forums.pingdom.com

Nice and fast and yellow.

Very attractive and well put together.

Could you list the mods/patches/hacks/add-ons you've used?

Personally I'd re-arrange the top tabbed menu in alphabetical order: Home | About | Blogs | Calendar | Gallery etc rather than random.

The fonts on the green pun top menu also don't match the rest of the site, so I'd suggest a change there for consistency.

I'd also suggest changing the colour of the green pun menu to a shade of blue, to better match the palette of the site.

A vote for banning them from me too.

Also can I suggest that you may perhaps want to look at tightening up your registration requirements with a CAPTCHA or something similar, if you haven't already got something in place, otherwise you may find that your board could see a lot of bot badness in the future.

Except that this is what you see when you try the SVN repository link:
http://punbb.org/svn/punbb/branches/punbb-1.3-dev
at the bottom of:
http://dev.punbb.org/

Not Found
The requested URL /svn/punbb/branches/punbb-1.3-dev was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache/1.3.37 Server at punbb.org Port 80

The current code for 1.3 dev is actually here:
http://dev.punbb.org/browser/branches/punbb-1.3-dev

Nice enough style.

The announcement on their forum says 'Guests now can read and post; however, guests are not allowed to post any URLs in posts. Registering removes this restriction.' Is there a punbb mod that strips the URL encoding out of guest posts or did they have to hack something up? That's a handy feature.

It did concern me. I read your original post topic thinking there was an urgent problem going down that maybe I could help with. But it wasn't urgent at all.

Point being one of netiquette.

If everyone marked their troubleshooting questions 'URGENT', no matter how trivial, then the word would lose its meaning, and so next time someone had a real urgent problem (maybe big database corruption, site been hacked,  last minute but serious glitch on launch of a big site etc), who would pay attention?

If you don't get it, I'm sorry for offending you. But I bet if you saw your own users doing the same thing on your own forum, you'd have the same feelings.

WAMP5 w. PHP 5 runs fine with me and multiple local copies of punBB.

To check your setup is OK, install a vanilla PunBB 1.2.15 into another directory on your WAMP server.

If that works, your mods are at fault with that particular PunBB instance you are working with...