I have been using this component for about two weeks so far and it has been a great addition to my site. Also, it has been rock solid, even for an alpha release, as I have not had any problems with it whatsoever. Well worth the modest price asked for the pro version to get the additional modules and features!

I installed Agora a couple days ago, as I would like to find a Joomla 1.5 native forum and dump fireboard. Although this forum seems to be pretty feature rich, and is certainly faster than fireboard, it makes NO sense to me that the admin is done in the frontend. Every other component on my website, the settings are made in the backend. If you don't mind this, then it is a good forum, but unfortunately may be a deal breaker for me. I will continue to work with it for a bit longer in hopes that it will grow on me...