For one - it's the fastest forum I've ever seen.

Since it's nosql it is easily scalable.

What isn't already update in realtime, will be able to run in realtime with socket.io

In short.. if you don't understand what's revolutionary about it, you don't fully understand the technologies that are being employed to create the web nowadays.

Also.. It's the first real forum package written entirely in node.

I agree with Julian.

I would even go further to say that /admin as a route to the admin controllers leaves some security to be desired. It's the first url they'll go after/try to hack.

If this were configurable, it would make things more secure, but might add some maintenance concerns, and might be challenging to implement at this stage in development.

For instance, I will probably manually rename the /admin controllers to /cmd or something different (pretty much anything other than admin).