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But what will happen to the 'Whisper Me' t-shirts!! They will be obsolete!! I hate VBulletin - a lot of the things in your list are geeky things and don't really have an impact on everyday quick, fly-by user
You don't have polls - good!
You can't upload images and have to host them yourself - good, we can share between websites - I love looking over people's flickr when they host pics, that's what it's all about, linking sites and peoples lives with images, videos etc.
You can't see who is replying to who... as in, if posts 1, 2, and 3 exist and 3 was a response to 1, then it looks like 3 is a response to 2 and it's confusing on very long threads when people reply to things much earlier - That's the beauty of user generated forums - it's a big mellee, but we all know what's going on - there is nothing worse than seeing millions of different answers to different parts of a thread it's just too complex.
There's no mailing list, which means you can't opt out when I choose to dump the whole email address, and it means I get my gmail banned as I send too many emails when I do send a mail-out - this really isn't that big a deal these days - we've got a forum, no need for a mailing list really.
I think all of the tech stuff is important, and I get what you mean about Vanilla being ok for a small forum, and this place is now pretty big. But Vbelletin seems like a backwards step when there are so many cool new apps out there that were designed specifically to better and simplify widely used web processes such as forums.... like Vanilla, so that you didn't have to know all of the forum tech-etiquette to be involved.
I can imagine that Vanilla is completely un-expandable and that VBulletin would solve many problems, but - Vanilla is LFGSS, and all it's shitness makes it perfect for here. If major problems arise we can all club together and get you Dave to write a bespoke forum - a bit like building a custom track frame - only with everyones input.... shit, I think that might not work on a second thought :-) xx