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[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by cellarius

One seldomly hears vB5 and professional in the same sentence

However, on topic: In my opinion, comments on posts make it much harder to follow threads, actually. Imagine a 25 page thread. So, now someone comments on a post on page 20. How do you find that post? What will be shown on the main forum index as last post in that thread - the actual last post, or the last comment on a post? The read/unread system and how it works will not allow you to count comments on posts as unread, or, if you find a way around that: if you read said comment on page 20, it will automatically mark all new posts after page 20 as read. And I'm only just beginning. Comments on posts disturb every discover-new-content-functionality vB offers - as on display on vb.com with vB5.

Yeah me personally I can't stand it either, this is a forum, not Facebook.

[Mark.B]

It's important to note that more people than you'd think DO like the comments system. Myself, I'd turn it off, but I've seen it used on quite a few sites with reasonable traffic and they seem to quite like it.

[ozzy47]

True, some people like it, and some don't. But the issue still remains, if the OP wants it for vB4, they will need to hire someone to write it like they want.