- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: GameJunkieJim
Posted by: osirisnunez
I'm sorry, but I'm accostumed to forum software that does the job correctly by enhancing the user experience with ease-of-use and a user-friendly interface like control panel. But then again, there are some forum software that preffer just a forum-- a place for discussion.
Also, about "enjoying bumping" my own topics ... no thanks, I consider that spam. And if someone doesn't like the thread the first read, what'll make them like it the second read if you know what I mean)?
But whatever, if the forums are going to be so bare-bones/stripped-down, then screw it, I'm wasting my time asking for the feature.
I lost my threads. Oh well.
Thanks for the replies though, guys...
This is a forum with 1.8 Million registered usernames. As such a high traffic forum, it requires stability, something most of those phpbb, ipb etc. type forums don't offer.
Also, features like those you mentioned take a lot of manhours to institute properly without breaking the forums. They tested a search feature a few months ago, I saw the box on the side. It IS coming eventually, but with 500 to 1000 new topics a day, it can't be easy.
Simply put, the ease of use is here, there aren't a bunch extra little tools to distract what a forum is needed for, which is the discussion of various topics.
If your topic is that important, bookmark it. If it's that good, people will respond to it. If you don't care about it enough to bookmark it, and others don't care enough about it to respond, then it probably wasn't a dynamite topic to begin with.
I'm sorry, but I disagree with you. There are larger forums that get even more posts/threads per day than this forum. Hell, this forums looks like crap compared to OffTopic.com (ok, mayb enot members counts... bu tlooks at thread/post count)... and they're powered by vBulletin.
[Edited on 8/16/2006]