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Aye Zach, the main jist of my post wasn't aimed at you, though it was in reply to your post. with VB3 Gold, it seems like the majority of the mods to the sites are going to be done through Templates, and it is a real bummer seeing this site being contributed to by just a couple of people, yourself and floris being the main 2 IMO, and a few others who seem to be making a valiant effort at also keeping up the community.

VBulletinTemplates.com should be BOOMING, but it is barely touched. Even with as much traffic that is directed here from vb.org, it's just not picking up IMO.

I think a couple of steps in the right direction are as follows: (and I'm sure as a mod you have little control over these things, but maybe someone will see.)

1. Broken image links on main page just add to the ghosttown effect of the site. It's a small fix that would at least give the impression that there is some sort of administrating body overseeing things.

2. Forum guidelines need to be in a more centralized location, and more attention needs to be paid to these guidelines. I think one of the guidelines or possibly even rules? over at vb.org is to always include a ss and txt. for this site, that is exponentially more important. Someone needs to fix the image uploading so that everyone can post images of their mods. It seems like a lot of VB site owners have ADD or something, and not a week after they get their site setup, mods posted, and whatnot, they have a link to some image on their site instead of posting a jpg, which is kinda just a roundabout way of getting people to visit, which isn't all bad I guess, but they really should be including jpg's uploaded to vBT.

The install button, it's purpose, and perhaps it's recognition should all be made more clear. Currently, I know that on vb.org, when I click install, it gives me updates to the mod that the author posts, and it lets me see a list, but what else does it do? why do the mod authors have to make a point about clicking install? I didn't know about the button here until after several mods were installed, and I am still not sure what exactly it does. I think we as members should be very aware of what installing does, so that the coders dont have to beg us to click the button.

Anyhow, those are justa few things that would help out vBT and the vB community IMO. I think you're doing a great job here, and I really did not intend for my initial post to be focussed on you, but the happenings as a whole. Keep up the good work, and I can't wait til I get familiar enough with vB to offer my own mods and ideas, rather than just helping people out with what others are installing.