I miss the old forum!

Yeah. Lets stop giving VB a hard time.

I treat forums like Xmas parties, I would never organise one myself, so I don't turn up and complain about other people who have done all the work.

Give it a couple of weeks, and I'm sure the forum will be rocking harder than The Stooges circa Raw Power.

Exactly. Before this forum came about I thought about starting one. I looked into the software one w/e and realised while it was not rocket science and it is quite well documented there is still alot of work to be done to keep it running smoothly and tweak it to how you want and make it inviting e.t.c. It was beyond my technical capabilities at the time (and still is). I am sure it is alot less work for VB than it would be for me as he is super clever and super experience at this but it still takes a alot amount of effort that while it may be a hobby for him is still time consuming.

Like many things it is not the initial set of of something that is tough it is the maintenance and keeping it running. Updates, bug fixes, hacking. Vanilla was good but like VB said there where lots of extensions he had set up. If you see a basic Vanilla site it is a VERY basic forum. Every time VB had to update Vanilla I am sure he had to re do many of the extensions he added, re-hack stuff, because updates NEVER go smoothly.

If V bulletin updates easier and requires less tweaking, bug fixes, extensions, general management and all the stuff we don't see but is especial to the running of the forum then I say it is a good thing.

Give your self time and VB time to tweak the forum and use the New posts link above and V bulletin will function much like the old forum.

Now lets stop being so British and hating change just for the sake of hating change. Give it a chance.

Well done VB. I'll buy you arum and coke.