mybb is a forum, i don't expect the average programmer to be able to make a forum 100% from scratch like i can, that would just be outrageous. a forum takes at-least a week to make. a link shortening website takes 20 minutes to make. there is a big difference.
@hotnoob I see what you mean by what you are saying but every site has potential if he takes the time to program more features in and make a nice unique design he may have a chance or even if he just hires a programmer to add in all the stuff that he needs you never know as of the way it is right now it has no chance but if he adds some of the features I suggested. Or if you really wanna be up there, you could add some of these features as well that I have seen on some of the most advanced short url sites. heavy duty application 2 ways visitors authorization profiles handling system AJAX interface API to create short URLs for remote services bulk URL shortening password-protected URLs temporary URLs (valid till certain date) easy database backup download automated spammy links report/killing facility custom tags custom tags for bulk URLs (automatically assigned tags like tag1, tag2, tag3 and so on) redirects statistic - referer domain, referer page, visitor's IP (+ link to geographical information about each visitor), date URLs and hits statistics can be seen even without registration (IP-based authorization) delayed, instant and framed redirects (both top and bottom frames supported) third level domains based redirects support (on demand) spam protection: 1 second timeout between submissions from same IP address (can be amended) spam protection: same URLs submitted from same user will have same shortened tag (unless user wants custom tag) registered users: edit/delete URLs admin: instant, delayed (middle page with ads) or framed redirects - can be changed via interface possibility to hide direct hits in statiscitcs module (usually these hits produced by search bots) admin: mass upload URLs from file browse and download URLs in CSV format by file name and/or batch (short tag) name ("all URLs with afiiliate-one batch or from affiliate-links.csv file") site block both target and refering domains (admin may stop all redirects to certain domain + all traffic from certain domain) Twitter browser button/bookmarklet export links to CSV file Of course there is endless amounts of features that you could add.
Not a problem, every website on the internet that offers a service started off small and then grew over time, websites don't start off as the most advanced piece of work there is it has to start as an idea and a name then from their the possibilities are limitless. To better understand what I mean of how every website starts off small check out: http://www.archive.org/ Code (markup): and use the "Way Back Machine" to look up some of your favorite websites and you can see what some sites like: "Google.com" "Yahoo.com" "Myspace.com" "Twitter.com" Code (markup): and almost any site that gained some popularity and you can see what they looked like when they first came out and the progress over the years with all the major changes. You will be amazed at how ridiculous some of the sites like yahoo and google looked in the starting time. Regards.