You are welcome to search the vb support forums for your answers. No one has said vb is rubbish here, I said it is decent software, but most everyone would agree that it needs some work on its efficiency - most pages in vB run many more queries than threads, and 8 times more queries is a huge difference no matter how efficient you may think the queries are.
A "fix" for register globals hasn't been released, as it requires them re-doing most all the subs to work correctly - php.net has recommended that register_globals be off since 4.1, something Rick and the gang prepped threads 5.5 for way back when - vB isn't there and I am pretty sure it won't be until v3 is released at some point in the distant future
We do not bad-mouth other software here (although seeing 2.2.1/2.2.2/2.2.3/2.2.4/2.2.5/ and now 2.2.6 released in rapid succession would make me wonder as a paying customer if anyone is steering the ship up there - seems like they should be able to get it right at some point) - we have no problem comparing this software to any php/mysql product out there...
