Welcome to the community!
SMF forums are quite good, I agree. We had some problems with MyBB forums, and since their support staff were reluctant and never even offered help for that matter to help us with the login and moderation problems we had, we ditched their forums. We pretty much had no choice. They never replied back, and I bet they still haven't. Well, as you can see, we fixed it our own way, and your looking at it!