thanks for responding, Scream,
the review I read on the pcmagazine site of about 2 years ago mentioned some real fly by night companies, most of whose links were no longer valid so I can't believe that you are too small.
I would definitely pursue them because you have a nice product.
It would really help me if somebody did a feature comparison of the two products since my brief 20 hours or so of research indicate that you're the only 2 serious ones out there. I have spent a lot of time researching the market to get to this point and now I can see that it will take me yet more time before I can settle on the product I want to purchase.
I would really just like to buy it today but I feel there is still so much I don't know about both products and I don't want to get into an implementation and then be disappointed.
I had some difficulty setting yours up whereas vBulletin was quite straightforward. I will spend more time at yours and let you know.
my head is telling me that your product is more powerful but potentially more difficult to use. vBulletin seems slightly snazzier (but not by much) and easy to use with their template-based approach (still haven't been able to get yours up and working yet).
but I feel VERY confined by their non-threaded, flat message-only format. I've been using the W3T's threaded mode quite a bit as I find it easier to follow a conversation thread like this and I then switch back to flat mode since this is easier for reading. I can't believe this isn't a standard feature of vBulletin
just wish I knew what the other "gotcha's" were with both products.
had a feeling the speed thing was something else.
thanks,
KC