Dear all,

Thanks for taking time to post suggestions and feedback in this forum. The following is a very simple rule explaining what will happen to your suggestions.

1) No response:

Sometimes you might not see my response to your messages in this forum. It is not because I decided to ignore your suggestion, but instead, I have put your suggestions (every single one) in my personal feature consideration list. As the forum grows larger in terms of lines of code and becomes much more complicated than it orginially was, it is not possible for me to just take all the suggestions and put them all into the package without adversly affecting either the performance or the architecture (other features, security, etc.) of the application. I have to decide in the best interests of all our current clients which features to add, and which to modify carefully. When a suggested feature is of limited use and may cause problem to certain types of forum setups (for example a newsletter sender -> only useful when your user base is very small, and can cause severe resourse related problem on a shared server even if you have a relatively small user base), I will not add it to the package. In such cases, a mod will be more suitable.

2) Advice:

Sometimes what you want is actually available in the forum software, but maybe in a different form. OR, there might be other combination of features available in the software to accomplish the same thing. In such cases I will provide my own suggestion to you, and it is up to you to take it. Because there are alternatives, it is unlikely I will give your suggestion higher-than-normal priority in my feature consideration list.

3) a simple but polite "not possible" response:

Please keep in mind this forum software is designed with "Shared (Virtual) Hosting" users in mind (97% of our user base), and therefore, there will be things that may sound plausible but actually not doable considering the limitations. Or, there will be things that need to rely heavily on third party software. For example, spell checker or "auto-backup database" are suggestions we frequently received. In such cases, I will provide my view and let you know it is not possible for me to build it into the package. A mod will be more suitable here also.

4) "OK"

When I see features that can be very beneficial to have for the majority of our users, I will put it in my to-do list, and the feature will very likely appear in the next revision. If a feature is only "nice" to have but it provides little benefit to the community -> sorry, a mod will be more likely.

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