Has anyone

[Harry]

(06-15-2010 09:54 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  

(06-15-2010 08:42 AM)Harry Wrote:  is currently run totally off donations and is covered for atleast the next few month's

Then you have plenty of headroom to spare for a small subscription payment.

(06-15-2010 08:42 AM)Harry Wrote:  In either case it is not a great incentive to switch forum software when you don't have these options.

There are MANY reasons not to switch forum software.  I really don't think your idea that people can easily change between them is quite justified.
Switching has all sorts of issues, from old URLs breaking due to the new script using different filenames, to your users being unfamiliar with the system.  Forum conversion does occur, but for most people, not the way you put it.

I can take your point that not having this in the forum software itself can be a disincentive to initially chose MyBB (after all, why pay when you can get for free?), but claims that this is going to be heavily detrimental to its future success is a bit far and beyond...

The future depends on whether or not what we have currently continues and thus limited options for some of this stuff. MYBB has already HAD several years ( back to 1.2 release IMO ) to do all that. Talking 4years as of Sept if i recall correctly?

As for switching.. Look at the recent huge migration from vB to IPB over the vb pricing crap. You know as well as i do that MYBB can do just about everything IPB does. Only difference is the support. Yet MYBB picked up very little of that action. These were well established sites too and not just some small random forum. I believe this is a huge part of the problem. I use BOTH MYBB and IPB and am well aware of what they can do. Not to mention IPB doesn't exactly have all that great of a modification community itself. You can get some awesome custom skins but that is about it. I have a hard time believing all of those users require that much support either other then perhaps to help make the switch which costs to do as well.  IPB has had it's share of issues as well since the release of 3.0! Mainly browser related though.

Really nothing else explains why people such as them who went from vb to IPB continue to avoid MYBB. We all know it is a great scipt that can do anything IPB etc can do. Sure it has it's little bugs but what doesn't? Development continues at a decent pace as well. That leaves this and thus lacking mod/plugins for MYBB for things such as this paid subscriptions plugin. Ofcourse the community forums is not exactly welcoming either and i admit probably plays a role in this.