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Originally Posted by HM666

Why? Why just "deal" with buggy software until they "fix" it? That is just out of the question. When you pay $250-$285 for software it should NOT have so many bugs out of the gate and pretty much EVERYTHING should work out of the box! When are they going to fix it? Its been over a year now so when does the fix come? Dude, I'm sorry but there is NO WAY I'd run something extremely buggy if I could help it with a promise of we will fix everything.

Trust me, in the beginning, I was really disappointed and pissed at the same time. My first month and a half, basically built the bulk of the content on the site between myself and my users(started out with 12). We all came from a close to out of the box VB4 environment as users, so some of the new features in VB5 were exciting and new to us.

When I realized how many bugs I was dealing with, I wanted to move on to something else but buying IP board was out of the question and "reverting to VB4 is not possible at this time" was the answers I got when I asked. (I didn't even know I had a license to VB4 at the time). So I just rolled up my sleeves and hit it head on. I may be new to forum software, but have used Linux on my desktop for 18 years. Chasing down bugs and working them out is really not an issue for me. I've become very intimate with the database and very seldom use the site builder for anything other than a quick html adjustment. I create my custom pages with cli scripts, adjust routing tables manually when I come across an simple issue that plagues the rest of the user base like renaming articles to homepage. It really isn't that complicated and I have a wide enough skill set to handle it.

I'm happy with the performance of my VB5 as are my users. I've worked out many of the bugs that are still present in the stock installation and I've done some custom work as well and will continue to modify it.

If I get tired of dealing with it, then I will either downgrade to VB4 or move on to another brand.
Probably the latter because lately I see more support issues for version 4 than 5 on VB.com.