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Mourne not your comrades who must dwell / too strong to strive -
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell, / Buried alive;
But rather mourne the apathetic throng / The cowed, and the meek -
Who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong / And dare not speak.
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Posted by: Achronos
The IdealScience software we have is not something you can buy - we paid them to develop forum software for us. They then used this base to develop their current ASP.NET forum product they sell to others.
We worked very closely with them, and I have made numerous changes to the source code of the system to make it work with our account, content, security, and rendering systems (among other things).
Most likely, what you saw was some CSS foul up that either scaled the images down or caused your browser to not be able to load the images. In that case, your web browser displayed the text version of things. If it happens again, try and send a screenshot and some reproducible steps to bnetbugs@microsoft.com.
This quote isn't as detailed as I had hoped it would be, but I think it works. Basically, they can't just switch over to different software. The Ideal Science we use is stronger than any free forum software you've used on other sites.
Someone else brought up the fact that any software they use would have to be able to support the thousands of group forums that are hosted on b.net. The workload for this site is immense. Anything that was used would have to be modified severly. It doesn't make much sense to do that when we already have one that works great, at least in my opinion.
EDIT: I don't like to wait. ;)
[Edited on 7/22/2006]