[nathanaus]

So can you add anything of interest to this thing? I don't mean to sound pesamistic but it looks a lot like phpnuke which is really really ugly.

Okay sure you can have columns on th left and columns on the right and some stuff in the middle. But what else? Can you modify the page to make it look less "phpnuke" like?

I get you add latest forum topics and polls and the calendar etc, but anything of actual use? The calendar looks "pretty" but has no real value.

I installed this "mod" on my test forum and at first I thought great I now have a front page that is tied to the forum. I can add atricles, put up pictures, do all that sort of stuff. Well that's what I thought I could do. I discovered that I can't actually do any of that. I can show the calendar, or I could put who is online. I don't see hte point in that - all of that is available from the forum proper.

I noticed you can add a new page. Okay great ... oh wait it's very SEO unfriendly by having index.php?page=yournewpage as the new page name. SEO goes down the drain there.

Many people seem to love this thing, tell me what I'm missing here. Please don't attack me for not "getting it" when it comes to this mod. I'm sure others out there are struggling to see it's value as I do. In all seriousness, what else - apart from display everything the forum proper does in a new way on the page and then kill all SEO techniques with it's horrible page calling structure - does this mod do?

I installed it on 3.0.4 and then uninstalled it. Help me to understand please