I really like how these sites link to a user's favorite events,venues or scenes and then show which users are interested in similar things.

http://www.dodgeball.com/user?uid=38796

http://www.yelp.com/

It would also be helpful for admin to have the ability to disable custom profile designs and stick with a default template. It just keeps things cleaner and less cluttered.

Compare the Dodgeball user page to the same user's MySpace page -- ugghhh!
Don't get me wrong -- It's great to have a choice and there's something to be said for individuality and uniqueness, but those who can't live without the flashy, blinged out look are always welcome to link to their MySpace pages.

I love that layout!! The friends photos down the right hand side - as well as the 'friends of friends' block. In my mind if a users sees this sort of page with lot's of 'friendships' they'll get the the feeling of a 'busy site' and invite their friends to join.

I thought so too. :) Some sites lend themselves to bling and others by nature of their content need to be more... shall we say... minimal and clean in appearance.

Minimal and clean is my favourite and overall they are likely to be more sucessful for a number of reasons... easy on the eyes so people who are visually impaired can still use the site with easy... easy to use so people who aren't technically clued up and new to the 'net can use the site with ease. At the end of the day 'less is more'.

David, I issued the warning as soon as I saw the post concering the other mod. And, now I am going to go clean up the debate that occurred after the warning.

If i put the Myspace Profile rewrite & Myspace UserCP rewrite that currently exist on to my forums, is it going to be a pain to revert back and use vbpsace?

Not at all, a simple revert of templates woulds all be needed, under 10 seconds.

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Any updates on this vB Intense or Stangsta?

No I'm not a salesmen for them.

I'm just saying, a modification like this basically is going to break the social networking phenomenon. The clones such as phpfox and others that try to mimic myspace are all but imitations with no innovation.

After something has been imitated and duplicated enough it loses it's value.