Open source may or may not offer a solution for this custom-programmed environment in perl. And it takes time/money to customize, implement, test, fix and maintain the code.
The system is bare-bones but not broken. (Well, the search IS broken, I guess.)
So I’m just sticking up for FR’s scarce resources.
Except we keep being told they’ll fix it. :P
Also, the posting system, despite disclaimers, isn’t fully HTML compliant. For example, we can’t embed YouTube vid links.
Just because we’re conservatives doesn’t have to mean our forum is stuck in the 1980s.