Most of the problems come in the fact that most of these people either don't know how to program or either don't follow directions. My first installation was a breeze and when I couldn't send a PM, I read the post that said to add UBB Code Buttons 3.5 and after that alls well. There's not really a tremendous amount of bugs, the script just needs some cleaning up at the edges.
If you don't know Perl then why even bother to hack a forum? The statement might be harsh, but it screws up the whole community and everyone's experiences are ruined if a newbie tries to hack a forum not knowing what they are doing. If you see an error in the coding, then fix it yourself! Then come back here and describe the problem and give suggestions on ways to improve it.
We're programmers, developers, some of us trained professionals. Come on guys... We shouldn't be dwelling on simple problems that could be prevented. Half of the posts in this thread are repeated over and over. If people would take time to read all of the posts then we wouldn't have to worry about all of this.
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