[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by KTBleeding

I'm sure that everything listed in this thread plays a part in the overall picture. For me, personally, the above quote is what has turned me off from vB.

That, and I refuse to work with tables. There were several occasions where I would sit down and try to come up with a tableless / semantic markup / etc skin so that all I would need to do is create stylesheet after stylesheet for new skins, but vB is a BEAST. Way too many templates, and about 30 or so in, I lost motivation and ended up being angry that vB is still this way.

To me, paying $160 for something that is so frustrating to work with is not only irritating, but also absurd and in my opinion, Jelsoft should have done something about that, instead of putting their time into trying to mimic Myspace.

I prefer vB because of the template system. But I digress.

I don't think the "too many features" argument makes any kind of logical sense, though. I could understand if it where a "function creep" argument; too many features that no one uses. But that's not the case here. You've got features that people are either choosing to use and others are choosing not to use. I hear too many vB owners say things like the Social Networking features are a bad idea or surpurflous, while totally ignoring the fact that a lot of sites utilize the feature and that their users like, even love it.