[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by final kaoss

If vbulletin can't keep up with the competition, why should we stick with vbulletin? And yes I think it leaves an impressionable result on someone wanting to switch to vbulletin from a different forum software but can't due to an outdated importer.

It may seem like a small issue but small issues add up over time.

That isn't directly related to what I just said.

ALL businesses make decisions based on cost on return on investment. There would be a cost to redeveloping ImpEx, I don't know the actual reasons but I suspect it's likely they decided that committing the resources needed (which would be substantial) was not worth the time and the money based on what they'd get back from doing it. It could also be, to take another possible scenario, that the company decided it doesn't want to target conversions form other software and instead wants to target brand new forums. A lot more resources are required to provide support for conversions, when compared to new sites.

I have no idea if any of the above scenarios apply in this case. What I do know however is that when companies take business decisions you don't like, it is not due to "lazy staff".