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I'm really hoping we can find a way to keep both options
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i honestly hope it's feasible too. if any feature a number of people want can be afforded, it should be.
the problem is that the enterprise-oriented forum software like vbulletin, ipb, fusetalk, etc doesn't seem to support it.
as a user i'm slightly partial to ipb, which could be seen as a 'grown-up' phpbb. vbulletin is the most widely-used/liked enterprise forum software out there.
if it were my forum to run, my first choice would be vbulletin, and i would look down the tree if i ran into a showstopper.
MASSIVE use and commercial support (including phone) is a big deal. look at
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...threadid=47430 - i would consider somethingawful's forums to be a standard of 'massive'. 31 million posts. 5,500 users LOGGED IN right now.