Yep, totally agree that in the grand scheme of things, version numbering doesn't matter.warmweer wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 11:07 amThe version numbering itself isn't really important although the difference between 3.0 and 3.1 is quite large if not massive (Mods: RIP! and Extensions: Welcome!).
AFAIR the successor to phpBB 2.0 was originally planned to have 2.1 as versionnr, but the difference in code base was is so large that 3.0 was the logical choice.
But from a public perception angle, major versions occur (X.y.z) every couple of years as a simple matter of course. It doesn't have to be that way, but generally features and changes become so big that it generally warrants a new 'iteration' of the software if that makes sense.