No that isn't it yabb rules, but I thought it would be fun to make my own message board so I decided to go ahead and do it. I am not going to replace my current YaBBSE board with it when I am done. If anybody want's to use the board I make it will be open source though.
Right now it utilizes a few featuers that YaBBSE doesn't have, such as a database abstraction layer. Basically I don't run mySQL query's the normal way, I send them through a mySQL function I made.
I am trying to optimize the board as much as possible and right now the boardindex is faster than the one in YaBBSE.
I haven't tested the other parts of the board yet to see if they are faster than YaBBSE's but so far all is going well. I think one of the other reasons it is faster though is because it doesn't have to load all the settings in settings.php because the only thing I have in it is the database connection stuff. That makes all the pages a whole lot faster since it doesn't have to read all the extra stuff in it.