We're always happy to hear that people are enjoying the site.
Fred, what you may not know is that we had made the decision to pull the plug on this site, back in January 2007. There was virtually zero traffic through here. A post was made to announce the doors were going to close and 2-3 people registered that same day. We decided to give it a chance and things have just grown from there.
We're always open for suggestions on how to make things better, so if any of you have ideas or suggestions, drop one of the staff members a Private Message and we'll kick it around.
We're currently considering an add-on script that would allow technical articles and product reviews to be submitted in a unique format. Article/review entry would work the same as a forum post, but the presentation would look considerably different.
For a preview of the article format,
here is an example from one of our sister forums. This script can also be configured in a tutorial format, as seen
here.
The problem with these add-ons is the price tags attached, so we like to give careful consideration to these decisions.
And I suppose this is as a good a time and place as anywhere, to let you in on a recent development. We've been using the vBlogetin add-on script on this forum for several months. It's a really feature-filled add-on and I was even invited to come on board with the vBlogetin staff, to help develop the project. Unfortunately, vBulletin subsequently released their own blogging script, known as vB Blog. People feel the vB Blog script is the way to go, since it is being offered by the same company that wrote the forum software.
As a result, development on vBlogetin has come to an abrupt, screeching halt. The good news is that the version we are using on this forum is stable, but the bad news is that vBulletin is close to releasing an updated version of the forum software and vBlogetin will not be compatible with that release.
The Webmaster will likely be making an official announcement about this issue in the next day or two, but the bottom line is this - vBlogetin is going to be removed from the site and it doesn't appear that we will be adding vB Blog to replace it. Fred is about the only member that is using the blogs at this time anyway, so we're probably not going to throw good money after bad.
Fred, I think the Webbie helped you move some of your member page content over to the blogs, so I would expect he will be in touch with you, to move things back again.
