[cellarius]

Originally Posted by napy8gen

I hope they buy xenforo and called it vb6.

So they can ruin it, just like they ruined vB when they bought Jelsoft?

If you want to use xenForo, just buy it and use it. No need for IB to get involved and spoil it for everyone.

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Originally Posted by Mark.B

The trouble is, what do you do? vB5 actually did try to innovate quite a bit (whatever people may think of the actual execution of that), but a lot of the changes got reversed during the early alphas because they were universally disliked.

And with good cause. Change for change's sake serves no one, and especially so if it's only half thought through, without concept and technically half-baked.

Now, a lot of the developmental focus seems to be on making it more like vB4 and vB3 rather than adding anything truly innovative, because that's what customers are demanding.

Is it really so surprising that people who run a forum want a software that offers a working forum solution? And, be honest, people did not dislike vB5 because it tried to be innovative, but because it was slow, buggy as hell and missing half the features they were used to. Blaming the vB5 desaster on ignorant customers won't change that.

So the problem you have is - change stuff too much and existing forum owners will run a mile.
Keep things as they are and the market continues to stagnate as the general public seem to prefer nonsense like Facebook and Twitter.

I don't profess to know the way forward.

Offer working and maintained integration with social media for those who want to use it. Make it optional for those who won't.

But whatever you do, offer good quality software. That's the point. And honestly, this is not going to happen with IB.