2.0 MyBB2 _ based on Laravel or YII ??

[Lennart Sauter]

Another benefit of Laravel that I forgot to mention is it's support for standards such as PSR-4 and other upcoming standards (and soon support for PSR-2).

Both are supported by YII and Zend too as far as I know.

MyBB has always enjoyed huge support from our plugin developers, designers and other third party developers. We aim to further and build upon that support, including with dedicated tutorials, guides, etc. in the future.

And that's my point. Current plugin developers, designers and other third party developers have not been asked enough about their framework preferences or informed why MyBB devs have chosen Laravel.
You might loose some of the most popular plugin and third party developers with that decision.

So please - more communication and more power for the community at such important decisions.