[wajones]

Originally posted by centris
Up until the post by WaJones I thought this thread was a half decent debate with several members putting their points across in a well-mannered and hopefully constructive way.

Sorry, my post wan't meant to fire anyone up. Maybe that's why I almost failed public relations in college.

I never intended it to become a personal attack on any one member but now I feel I am forced to state my own position regarding the issue.

Any post I made had nothing to do with money; I do not want something for nothing, as you seem to think. I also take offence that you seem to think I am some kind of under privileged person, what a patronising statement to make. I set up my own board on my host at my expense, the vB licence was at my expense, and the continuing updates, hacks etc and the vast amount of time I spend hopefully providing my members with a better board are all at my expense. I ask for nothing in return.

I didn't intend my statement that you or anyone was a charity case. Just meant that I wasn't necessarily asking for money. Not that I would turn it down. This is an expensive hobby and I am retired and really am almost a charity case

So what am I asking for; the opportunity to become involved, not to take a perfect hack and run, as you seem to think. Can I offer assistance in debugging NO I do not have the necessary skill level to do that but, I can work out what is wrong with my own installation and hopefully learn in the process, prior to commiting to my main board. All my problems with 2.01 were down to two things. (1) Typos in the scripts (mine) and the fact that somewhere in the scripts the portal is looking for the forum(s) folder, mine is in the forum folder.
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Everyone that has installed vbPortal 2.x has had problems and I just didn't want that to be the case with 3.0, If I went about it wrong, I guess I did can't do much about it now, but I didn't mean for it to cause hate and discontent.

Anyway 3.0 will be ready for beta 1 release in a few days I hope, it's not perfect, but it's still free.