its not that the other forums are bad by any means, but we (the tt.net people) find their setup/design/usability to be extremely weak and un flexable. you CAN make tt.net look exactly like a ubb based board. you might also say this site is slow. well, sometimes it can be. recently this site made a change. the codebase was completely changed and written from the ground up (greg rocks), and it was placed on some very beefy servers with even more beefy bandwidth. just like any inital release there will be 'issues' that arise. things are never perfect in the computer world.
oh, do you remember back when people went ape shit over win95's design because they are so used to win3.x or whatever? lots. ANY half-witted numb nut could setup a ubb based site.