This looks very interesting. I've reviewed the screencaps and have a few questions. I am currently using another content management system with my forum that is not integrated in any way into vB other than appearing on my homepage. Here are some of the features I use there and a couple others that I would want to see in something that was vB friendly:
1) Is it possible to move an article from one category to another?
2) When a user performs a search, will it search the articles?
3) How about designating, or attaching a thumbnail image to serve as the article lead-in on the homepage
4) Order articles for display (arbitrary, chronologically or reverse chrono)
5) Designate whether an article or an entire category is visible (5a and perhaps even by user group)
6) Copy an entire article or category (this is very helpful for using articles or cats as templates for future articles, or perhaps archiving old ones.
7) Is it possible to select that a lead-in will link to an off-site article directly (by URL)
8) email article to a friend links
9) article stats (views, mostly)
10 XML RSS Feed output (well we can dream, can't we)
Summary
2, 5a would make it a nice integration to vB. Something I can't do now with stand alone software
1,3,4,5,6,7 are very typical and mostly essential features for publishing environments. If it did not have these features it would be of limited use to me, but I can expect it might serve others well.
8,9, 10 are nice-to-haves
Thanks,
Matt
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