Is this forum relatively easy to set up and administer?

I have a member site using the old Web BBS software, and my members are asking for a forum where they can see all the messages in a thread at once. So I'm looking at this software and would appreciate input.

One concern I have is that there are so many user options, I think my users would want fewer. Is it possible to disable some of the options administratively and simplify the forum operation?

Thanks!

Marcia Yudkin