This place is like a closet now.

[Chris]

Why could you not have used a similar source code like AA? No bullcrap gimmicks...just a board that loads fast and you can see the posts.

Simply put - reliability, security, adminstration features, user features, and availability. After doing a good amount of research, we found that there are very few forums scripts available that still utilize the old-style threaded functionality. Most of the major sites that have a forums system with decent amounts of traffic have all moved over to this type of system for a number of reasons - probably some of the same reasons we have. We've had to upgrade our forums system a few times in the past 4 years because we used simple technology that was unreliable at best. We used to use a system like AA, but found it to be difficult to keep up, had limited user options, and it had little potential to integrate with our other sections (like reviews).

We chose to go with this current script because it is the most powerful, automates many tasks on the adminstration side, adds a good deal of security, gives the users more options, and was the absolute best/most widely used system on the market. A majority of the large community-based websites on the web (not only audio sites) use this script or one like it.

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Simply put - reliability, security, adminstration features, user features, and availability. After doing a good amount of research, we found that there are very few forums scripts available that still utilize the old-style threaded functionality. Most of the major sites that have a forums system with decent amounts of traffic have all moved over to this type of system for a number of reasons - probably some of the same reasons we have. We've had to upgrade our forums system a few times in the past 4 years because we used simple technology that was unreliable at best. We used to use a system like AA, but found it to be difficult to keep up, had limited user options, and it had little potential to integrate with our other sections (like reviews).

We chose to go with this current script because it is the most powerful, automates many tasks on the adminstration side, adds a good deal of security, gives the users more options, and was the absolute best/most widely used system on the market. A majority of the large community-based websites on the web (not only audio sites) use this script or one like it.

Then I would suggest that you write to the authors of the software and tell them that folks really don't like this format and they should consider other, more user friendly formats, in addition to the admin-friendly ones.


-Bruce

[Chris]

Then I would suggest that you write to the authors of the software and tell them that folks really don't like this format and they should consider other, more user friendly formats, in addition to the admin-friendly ones.


-Bruce

Well you see, that's the problem - it seems most everyone who uses this format is actually happy with it. I've asked the authors of the software if there were any plans to change it to the threaded-style format similar to what you have all been used to, and they said that they have received very few requests for it and do not plan to change it. The general consensus is that this is a user friendly format. I would think that if everyone wanted a threaded-style forum, they would have been forced to design one long ago. In any case, as you suggested, I have actually put in my request to them anyway a while back. We'll see if it makes a difference with their newer versions.