>>9
First of all, it's
imageboard not "*chan" or "chan". Second, all of the Kusaba continuations have not improved (and have in fact become worse) than the original software they're all based on. I mean, seriously... an imageboard script that's over a megabyte large? That's insanity. I'll bet even 4chan's Yotsuba script is not even that large.
The only decent PHP script currently under development that I know of is Drydock which is based off of the now defunct script, Thorn. However, it still contains all that Something Awful-imported crap like
(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST), stickies, etc. I don't mind 4chan having those features, because they're used sparingly. On almost every Kusaba based board I see the feature used way too liberally: three, four stickies at a time, I mean what the fuck?
At least someone is trying to make it possible to come up with something better than the typical "chan board" with it's trolls, homos, paedos and the like.
7chan was the site where the initial idea for Kusaba (then called Trevorchan) came from. Originally they used Wakaba, but they were dying of thirst from not having crap like the previously mentioned "features". So Trevor coded it up for them and setup his own distribution site and the script spread like
wildfire AIDS.
Oh, and did I mention 7chan encourages (and even has stickied) "jailbait" threads? If by trying to make "better", you mean "more amplified", then I would agree.
What this all means for you
>>9 is that you should just stick to Wakaba.