genius lvl 6000+ :P

If that were the criterion for being able to sue people, then I should be able to sue for every car I've owned. Ever. "Because they're selling" is terrible reasoning for "I should buy it", without doing a shred of research. I check the reviews before I buy a .99 cent app.

It will someday go the way of MySpace though. Might take a little longer due to mobile addiction, but it will.

Keep in mind, the reason MySpace "went out", as the saying goes, is because MySpace was ultimately a terrible service. The code was dated and slow. Users could customize their pages to the extent that they typically bogged it down with videos and music embeds that slowed it even more. (And was never valid embed code.) And the ability to use custom CSS resulted in some of the most god-awful color combinations you could ever possibly imagine in your worst, fever-induced nightmares.

Add to all that, there was nothing to do there. There was no feed to see what your Friends were doing, and they didn't implement one until years after Facebook made it the standard.


With that said, MySpace is kind of nice now. Not what it was, but kind of nice: https://myspace.com/digitaljedi


Facebook isn't killing forums. They're not going to Facebook for discussion of their favorite niche. They're going for a one stop source of all their niches, friends and family's up-to-date info. If they have an interest in a particular topic, they'll go to those sites. After all, the internet is a big place. If being able to do all the stuff you do on Facebook killed all the other sites that specialize in what Facebook also does, Facebook would be killing the internet. No, people will seek out their favorite topic in spite of Facebook, and they'll visit your forum if they 1) find it in the sea of forums that already cover your topic, 2) have an interest in actually discussion that topic 3) are attracted to the vibe of your forum. Which are the things you had for and against you long before Facebook existed.

What Facebook might be killing, though, is off-topic, general discussion forums. Those were tough to build in the first place. I can't see them thriving in a Facebook world, easily.

Poor logic. "not being right for me" is no reason to sue someone. "Not doing what they said it would do" is a perfect reason to sue someone. If you bought a brand new BMW and found it would only turn left, you could easily and successfully sue. Did you?

vBulletin should have stayed with version 3 for a lot longer than it did when IB took over, IB reminds me of other companies that i have seen that do a take over, all they want is their money back asap and advance too fast and mistakes with product releases trying to get as much as possible out of it before it dies.

It didn't die - they killed it!!!

Concur with that, but what's REALLY happening is, the mobile addiction. Forums by and large really haven't caught up yet with being mobile device friendly - people just want to use their phone for everything. It's convenience and it's dopamine.

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Roger that.

Hm, and if they hide their customer reviews (aka feedback) from new customers?

But again, I should be able to sue every car company I ever purchased a car from on that basis. The way people post about vB5, is as if everything they've ever purchased before actually was superior "to the leading brand".


From new customers? I mean, if you went ahead and bought the product without reviewing it...that kinda goes back to my point. :confused: