Would A Wordpress Influence Be A Bad Thing?

[brandondrury]

I upgraded to vB4 this week. I left Wordpress for the vBcms. That's kinda like losing your job and trading in your 2-year old Lexus for the Uncle Buck car.

I get the vibe that the current vB team is skilled bunch of programmers, but the leadership isn't so hot. There's a very "hurry up and just make money" feel to the whole thing and the fact that this thing is THIS hard to use after one year supports that viewpoint. It's like a CMS from 2002, not 2012.

I see they have started with the bottom up, not just with their coding (fair enough) but with their approach to the whole thing. I see example after example after example of them making 2003-era mistakes in their CMS. These were issues that we, as the human race, progressed past. It would be like debating if rubber tires were REALLY the way to go or if we should go back to wooden tires from 100 years ago when designing a car for 2013. The rubber issues has been solved and for all practical purposes, so has taxonomy.

Why a seasoned web dude needs to spend four hours figuring out their methods of categorization is ridiculous to me. Wordpress has this right and 99% of us are extremely happy with that style of taxonomy. Stamp it and put thought into something which got ZERO thought, like the Stylevars system. (YUCK!)

So I'm not recommending flat-out theft. I'm recommending taking a look at the "state of the union" in 2011 and pulling all those best ideas combined with improvements of your own into a product fully integrated with vBulletin forums. It would be the product of the century. At the moment, I'm not even sure if this bird is going to fly.

Brandon

[DomP]

amen