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The PERL/PHP decision was definitely not just about money. It was about how can we put out a better, if not the best, product. It may seem like a drastic move, but it is logical.
Scream, it may be logical from your point. But, let's look at that from our perspective. You will now have access to far more resources from ubb now, you should have lots more time to work on code since you won't have to be everything to everyone (ie, billing, support, etc.) and there will pretty much be someone else running the hacking forum... How is that decision logical to us? And it would be interesting to see what percentage of your customers are running perl vs. php -- which I assume you know and is relatively small or you wouldn't have made a blind decision like that to drop one of the products - what if 60% (or more) of your customers are using it.
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I don't like everyone to feel like they need to hack their board to get the features they want
But that's been the hallmark of the development of this product, hasn't it. As I see it, your first and foremost goal should be always looking to improve the product, performance first, features second. Why, because visitors won't leave our sites because we don't have some cutesy smiley faces they can use, but they damn well will leave it when it takes over a minute for pages to load - and they'll leave faster than the time it took them to get there in the first place. And the hacking community will always be finding things to add in, some will make it in, others won't and probably shouldn't. And that's fine - most of us like the product because we can do just that - if we want. And that's our decision to make and why a number of people chose this product over others.
At this point, I'm not sure I'd want them to reconsider. We've been written off as the unwanted stepchildren that I guess they see us as and if they did reconsider, how much attention could we really expect them to give to it... And I'd rather have the product to use as-is than a product with "well, I guess we HAVE to put these features and bug fixes in, so make it quick" upgrades that we would always have to worry about.
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"But Junior, I thought you liked the attic"
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