[Carnage]

it's possible to replace forums ids with names?

That one isn't easilly possible, the id needs to be avaliable somewhere for vb to use to query the db with.

can we rewrite it as /forum-f<id>/topic-t<id>.html ? or /forum/<id>-topic

If you are confidant with php, you can take a look at the contents of the experimental zip files I uploaded; otherwise you will have to wait until that code is stable and included in the product.

should have used one single router and one single method to create links, but what's been released is a mess.

I suspect that this will be the case once the rewrite is completed eg by 4.2/4.3 but for 4.0.x we have to cope with the mess thats been made.

I call vbSEO rip off when comparing it with other community softwares out there which provide very good SEO tools for free and the cost for vbSEO is almost the same as what you would pay to buy those softwares, otherwise I'm not questioning it's functionalities

I agree with this fully, especially when you consider it used to cost $150 even when vbulleitn was only $160 to buy. If it were $50 I immagine it'd be installed on pretty much every vbulletin board (except the official ones of cause )

I almost wonder if IB have got some deal with vbSEO not to kill them off; it took so long to get friendly urls in the core package and even with them in there, the functionallity is so lacking. While developing this i've been constantly amased at how easy it was to get most functionlity working. To get it working perfectly requires a few file edits, but vb could have made them.

I intend to keep making improvments to this product including the amount of customisation avaliable and hopefully expanding to other areas eg the CMS untill vb improve the friendly urls in the core product.