[In Omnibus]

Originally Posted by Dave

I don't think they even have the manpower to start all over again, even if they wanted to.

This reply is directed at the general point, not at you specifically.

Not to mention there's absolutely no reason to start over again. It's not as though the competition has advanced even to the level of vBulletin 4.2x as of yet.

There's only so far the development of a message board forum software can wander before it becomes something other than a message board forum.

I realize there are people who think it should become a social media platform but if it becomes that it is no longer a message board forum. It can't be everything to everyone.

It can't be Facebook, and Twitter, and Instagram, and WordPress, and forum software. If it's all of those things guess how much time social media people will spend on the forums? About the same amount they spend now.

But it seems like that's what people want and expect.

A lot of people lost their bowels over the initial release of vB4. And yet, it has developed into the best software of its type.

vB5 is the only software of its type. It has no competition. So when some people go off the deep end about how vB5 is a bad product because it's not an upgraded version of vB4 they have no valid argument. vB5 was never supposed to be that and was never advertised as being that.

Kevin and the development team have made huge progress on vB5 in the last few months. In less time than it took for people to not only accept but actually like vB4 I believe they will have vB5 leading the industry. They did it with vB3 and with vB4, so there is a precedent.