^{Originally posted by John-S4 August 7, 2021}
I think that the direction of this software is currently a little bit unclear, and I am curious what other people actually expect or want from it.

At the moment it seems to not really know what it wants to be.

I guess essentially the question is whether people are looking for a big piece of software that does everything, or a light framework that does all of the core functions really well, and is easily extensible with additional 'modules', 'plugins', or whatever you choose to call them.

Personally I would like to see it move towards the second of those options.

For example:

• I don't think that file manager belongs in there - I think that is something for a server control panel, not for a billing and client management portal.

• I also don't think that the forum should be installed by default, if it is there as part of the core at all then it should definitely be an option on install. It's far from the best forum solution out there and I think it would be better to have nice integration with something better if you want a forum at all.

It would be good to ship with a limited number of payment integrations, control panel integrations, etc. and have a clear well-maintained repository of others that can be added.

What are your views on what you want from BB and what direction the codebase should go in?