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Originally Posted by jdelasko

[Vent]At the risk of sounding like a complete jackass, I have to ask what the point of this release is. Why would anyone want to blog with such a cumbersome, and archaic text editor? The lack of an integrated photo album is another thing that prevents this from being a product forum members would want to use. Granted, my forum is currently a small one with a little over 300 members, but in spite of numerous attempts to get them to create personal pages using Zoints, not a single member page has been created on my site in the last year. Why should they? There's no easy to use text editor, and they can't create photo albums. These are 2 features that you have somehow managed to implement on the zoints website, but they are conspicuously missing from the released product. Bottom line is, that without these 2 features, I cannot imagine Anyone enjoying using this system, or why they would want to.

I could be wrong in my assessment, so if there is any forum owner out there that is having any degree of success at getting members to participate, I'd sure like to hear about it, because I'm very close to uninstalling htis product. And please hold the obvious comebacks that I'm getting this product for free, because that wasn't my choice and I'd be glad to pay for something that had all the necessary features.[/Vent]

JD,

I've tried to be nothing but helpful in answering your questions. It's truthful that many of our features came directly from suggestions and common thought among feedback, such as wanting ways to encourage members to have a reason to use profiles. Did we want to add more? Yeah. On the possible to-do list for the engineers was in fact the external WYSIWYG editor. Did we have endless time to complete all of this? No. You might think, actually I know you think, that we didn't prioritize correctly. For you and your forum that may be the case and I apologize if we can't meet your specific requirements but for other forums we might be delivering just what they need. We can never make everyone happy, but it's not for a lack of trying.

We WANT to add one. I think no matter what I say, you're not going to consider it and that's fine as you are entitled to your opinion, but I will make another push for looking into it. I am just a staff member, that doesn't mean it will happen but I can try my best.

As for this "but they are conspicuously missing from the released product," not to sound rude but that is just digging for something. We have added cool things to Local that haven't even made it's way to our network. A lot of people would say that was a pretty stupid move for us, but we wanted to give you guys something cool, whether you want to believe it or not.

Originally Posted by jdelasko

Pointless? A photo album page that has the same look and feel as the rest of a members pages is pointless?

Would it have been pointless if we could develop a superior photo album option? Of course not. Did we have the time to do such a thing considering how long we have been going at this? No. And to draw from the paragraph above, an album solution was needed on Zoints.com, we felt that as we weren't planning to release when 3.70 came out, some would already have established photo albums by our release and would be more content with keeping those rather than starting over.

I am really sorry you aren't more satisfied. As a non-engineer there is not much more I can do than to push for the editor issue to be looked into, which I will do.

Have a great weekend JD.

- Reid