Actually, most of my complaints about VB4 (and VB3.8) do not come from bugs, but from core design... hell, I don't even know what the license agreement changes were; I don't care. VB4 should have made things easier and given us more features; and it didn't do any of that. Most of my complaints stem from the poor implementation of the stylevar system; which took a working "universal" system in VB3, and made it less universal, while at the same time claiming that the new stylevar system would make things EASIER for the administrator... when it didn't.
And its not just VB4, even VB3.8 introduced some "odd" design. Looking at the Album Art system; which doesn't make any sense at all; there is no built in album art library where users can browse all uploaded art. The system only lists recently updated albums; and your own... and even then, it doesn't sort the dates by images, but by update codes for albums. Then look at the Social Group system that didn't make any sense either. The whole idea of a "social group category cloud" violates the entire notion of "discovery" by promoting the large groups while playing the newer groups on the wayside.
The more I use VB4 the more I wonder if "Internet Brands" has any idea how people use the internet. Double click to get to the advanced post reply? Thats not how the internet works, and that will never be how the internet works. Why do the forum sidebar and the CMS sidebar use diffirent widgets? For that matter, why is there no widget XML exporter and importer? A lot that comes from IB just doesn't make any logical sense... like why is XFBML disabled?!
08-29-2010, 03:12 AM
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