[Lee Lichterman]

Sorry - I didn't feel that getting rid of those buttons was a cosmetic thing as much as a functional one since no could tell what they did with them all being the same button.

As for the Vbulletintemplates site. I saw where that site first stood up and it seemed it wasn't a true Jelsoft official site. While I understand that younger people are some of the best hackers out there, if I recall correctly the person standing that place up is not officially affiliated with Jelsoft and was 18 years old at the time. Not exactly the way I want to make official changes to my board, release sensative information to etc. ( Waits for flames) I mean the guy is probably one of the best but I would like to stick with official sites for VB.

As for no hacks allowed for VB3. OUCH!!! My users are screaming to get this e-mail fixed. I mean they are up in arms about it. Take today for example, the Federal Reserve makes a comment to leave interest rates a certain way and the DOW shoots up 125 points. Guess what, no one got the e-mail!!!!!!!!!!!!! About 50 peope just missed out on making about $20,000 in a few minutes.

So now I have to dump my new board and either go back to discus pro or install VB2 and then ask for a hack for that?

It is starting to look like I just wasted $160. This message board software is probably great for gamers, talking about teddy bears and teen idols and other teen pastime things but it seems it is more oriented toward appearance and not functionality of business.

My users need to be able to subscribe to a forum, not just a thread. Threads are added, or get old and go dead. They need to see new questions, ideas and know they are out there from the forum level. I spent all night trying to hack that and can get it to show as an option but cant find the cross check that allows it to be sent. It seems that the cron mail php file that sends forum mail doesnt have it in there but then that file doesn't deal with immediate notification.

They also need to see every answer by e-mail that is posted, not just the first one that happens to be posted. No forum immediate notification is there. E-mail stops after one sending. HUH??? Subscription php has a bunch of stuff there but I have owned this software 2 days and now I am left on my own to figure all this out???

No built in table view?? Code it yourself??

All kinds of pretty ways to put a picture at the top but not a single way to add text for the name of a company, make global announcements. No way to say there is a sale today, the end of the world is coming nothing? Answer, code it yourself?

I am really starting to think I made a major mistake buying this.

Everything I read said this was one of the most stable pieces of software out there and was very customizable. When I saw that it was customizable, I thought it was for function, not appearance only.

I didn't realize that Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Apple go where they were by telling their customers to code it themselves.