Did we ever say it was coming in a month or so? I don't think so. We said it was coming soon. And soon could mean a few months. Please be patient.

How long does it usually take to rename and move a bunch of threads? A day? A week?

I think people take issue because every suggestion given in here is met with the same response, regardless of how much time the suggestion would actually take to implement.

A couple of months on the internet? Are you serious? And weapons of mass destruction will be found in Iraq "soon"...

:D

Just to put this into perspective, a company that I worked for 3 years ago have been telling one particular group of their customers that a service would be available in their area soon for the last 5 years or possibly even longer. Therefore, a handful of months is PDQ if you ask me.


(PDQ = Pretty Darn Quick)

I don't think there is much comparison between a telecommunications company and a forum. ;)

Ah, but surely it's implied that the database will come TOO soon for it to be worth considering restructuring the release forums. This is clearly not the case.

Would that be Cable Teletext?, because I'm still waiting for it! :D

My personal opinion is that the 3.5 set-up isn't that much use.
For instance, I generally prefer to avoid any hacks involving template changes because I can't be arsed having to re-do them after upgrading to a new vBulletin version. So I give the Template Modification forum a miss & go to Plug-ins instead, only to find most of them require template changes anyway. Ditto with Code Modifications, etc.

So in that respect, it isn't very helpful

I prefer the 3.0 way of classification. If a hack requires a code modification, I'll just not install it and be on my way.

I prefer 3.0 as well, and I'd just like to point out that vB 4.0 may be out before we get a hack database here. ;)

My dear Paul, sorry to disappoint you but you have got your dates out by a couple of months and it isn't the same company is you are thinking of but one that I worked for before them.

Well you're wrong. Not everyone thinks the forums are constructed in a way that is wrong. And this thread demonstrates that perfectly. When one person, or ten people, complain on a forum with 100,000 members that something isn't the way they like it, the staff are not going to go change it immediately and grovel at peoples' feet. This has come up before - we are waiting for the hack database and upgrade to be finalised and finished and that's that.