Why The Cellar?

Undertoad · 12-13-2001, 09:16 AM

The forum software, vBulletin, is getting popular. This place is mostly generic vBulletin. My theory is that you stick with close to the default so people only have to learn the software once. You should be able to use any other vBulletin software out there if you use one vBulletin-based system.

Unfortunately most site operators believe that they are more special if they customize the hell out of it. But the features are so well thought-out that any customization beyond style is likely to break a very good concept of how this stuff is supposed to operate.

It's the people who make a forum special but bad software can definitely get in the way!

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12-13-2001, 09:16 AM	#33
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	The forum software, vBulletin, is getting popular. This place is mostly generic vBulletin. My theory is that you stick with close to the default so people only have to learn the software once. You should be able to use any other vBulletin software out there if you use one vBulletin-based system. Unfortunately most site operators believe that they are more special if they customize the hell out of it. But the features are so well thought-out that any customization beyond style is likely to break a very good concept of how this stuff is supposed to operate. It's the people who make a forum special but bad software can definitely get in the way!

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