vb3 is bloat

[Feran]

Coding is too complex for a computer user to come close to understanding. Simple errors such as "cannot include file" with the error file being "hackname.php.php" has to be posted in a hack's thread as opposed to realising to just modify the code to not mess up the filename.

It's not that the forum UI is complex, it's that there needs to be a little guide to the modular sense in which vBulletin has been set up, so that coders can customize with ease.

Inherently, though, a message board is simple. Posts are a series of IDs, and some posts register as parent threads from which replies hang.

Hacks like quick reply are just a matter of adding a form to send default parameters on showthread.php versus going to a specific page.

Things really shouldn't be that hard.

Turning stuff off is good.. *drool* :P