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  • eeehhhh [quote]velocity boy If we went to vBulletin or something, I would still keep a clean and minimal look to things. There would still be no signatures, the "new posts" clutter will still be the front page. There would still be white space around things.

    Reading what you've written it seems that Vanilla is a pain in the arse for you to maintain, but very good as an end user. Good that there wouldn't be any sigs, I think they're unbelievably pointless.
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    It's not terribly hard to maintain. To say that would be dishonest. But there are lots of little problems with it, and the extensions are frequently buggy. Fixing those things would take more effort than I care to give (as in, weeks and weeks) and I'd have the problem that unless I could get my changes into the core codebase (theorhetically possible, it's open source) then I'd have to re-apply changes everytime there was an upgrade.

    The vBulletin thing just doesn't have those bugs in the first place, higher level of maturity (it's been around years) accompanied with more eyeballs finding bugs and currently more devs working on it to fix bugs.

    I guess it just frustrates me when bugs slowly surface. It's pretty shoddy of Vanilla to not be able to work out how many pages to paginate over. It hurts my pride in delivering a quality website when the tools let me down.

    I'll investigate both fixing Vanilla, as well as what it might take to use vBulletin.

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