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There won't ever be advertising or a "premium content" (hidden) section on the site. Other "value added" features are being looked at - but the core forum will remain free and available as it is now.

Lawyers happened. There was a long legal battle between the current owners of the software we use at the moment and the developers of the software we want to change to, who also happen to be the people who wrote the software we currently use but who got retrenched and went to start up a...

Widescreen option is already there - at the bottom left corner of the page is a drop-down box where you can choose some other styles. Try "Somersoft Wide". You can also set this in your preferences to store your settings in your forum profile rather than using a cookie...

I did a test migration to XenForo a couple of weeks back and it worked well. I just need to do a bit of work on some themes and then put together a heap of documentation for the moderation team (and possibly some for the users) to help smooth the migration. I also have a couple of plugins...

Difficult to give you much indication about how the site will look since I haven't started on the new design yet. For now, here are some examples of some other sites using XenForo: http://www.striderlife.com/ (I'm a member here!) http://slruser.com/ http://forums.kayako.com/...

After closely watching the developments with vBulletin after v4 was released, I decided I didn't want to go down that path - I don't like the direction they are taking the product. There would be significant work involved in upgrading (v4 changed a lot of the core functionality which...

I've done a lot of work on Compare Funds scraping data off remote websites, including downloading and processing XLS files and PDF files and such (providing the format of the data doesn't change between releases). If I can get to the data, and it is in a logical (and consistent) format, then I...

The whole Facebook thing is a bit of a double-edged sword. I was going to head down the integration path with one of my other sites, but I'm beginning to think that there are some serious downsides to doing so. Many of the ongoing issues relating to user data privacy and the abuse of trust...

Sounds like a great idea. I've been doing a lot of charting integration on some of my sites - I'm currently rebuilding my Compare Funds site to make it more mobile friendly and adding a lot more capability into the analysis. I've also been developing more of a dashboard style interface for some...

We already have a tagging function (which hasn't ever really been explained to users) ... that's a useful tool for user-driven categorisation. Not the only way, but it's there and it's easy and it's a start. We also have thread ratings. We don't currently have particularly good ways of...

I think the StackOverflow model suggested earlier in this thread has a lot of merit for this type of thing. It is more suited for the "I have a specific question" type posts as opposed to the open ended type discussions, but I think there is room for both on a site like this. Rather than...

I think "unsatisfactory" is being a bit too kind. The current search mechanism is rubbish really. This should be vastly improved in vB v4, but I will also look at adding an integrated Google search feature as a search option once I build the new site. You'll be able to choose which of the two...

This feature is from an add-on published on the vB modifications website - I'll have to investigate further before I consider installing it to determine whether I think it is robust enough to run on the site, from my quick read of the support forum it loooks like there may be some issues with...

The software does need to be updated at some point in the near future, and as a result, the UI will be "modernised". My goal is to keep the site as usable as it is now, while also being able to incorporate all the new features and improvements that the new version of the software will allow...

Yes that site uses vBulletin v4, which is the same software we will be upgrading to later in the year. That means the basic underlying structure will be the same, but the actual look and feel will be somewhat different - I'll be modifying it somewhat from what they have. Most of the little...

Hmm. I can see the value of this style of interaction in some situations. While using Stack Exchange itself is not really an option based on the way they've structured their hosted solution (and the price - ouch) ... I think we could build something similar as part of the core website here...

By the way - if anyone has any suggestions of other forums they particularly like the design of, please let me know - I'm always looking for good ideas. Here is vBulletin's "official" list of sites: http://www.vbulletin.com/links.php ... although that isn't up to date (a couple of my sites...

Really, there aren't many features - at least hardly any that are of significant consequence to 99% of the users of the forum. It's a discussion forum. There are a list of topics. Pick one, read it, post in it. Not sure how you could make that "flow of info" any more straight forward...

Always open to suggestions for improvement - feel free to post anything you like in the "Help and Feedback" forum. I can't promise I'll implement everything, but I'm happy to receive ideas.

The current forum design is quite old - hasn't been updated in a while, only minor tweaks here and there. This has mostly been deliberate, although I do agree that it is time for some design changes. There is a major upgrade coming soon, the jump from vBulletin v3.8.x to vBulletin v4.x is a...