Hello Everyone,
I've been looking at using Burning Board for a while now. I've used my fair share of forum software over past years. As of late I see that there is a new trend, especially with requests on this forum for features. In my past experience, forum software has been overloaded with features and have caused problems. In my opinion forum software should stick to it's true mission and purpose. In my opinion, in the case of Woltlab you have the core software (WCF) and then you have the forum software in this case (Burning Board). The core piece of software should stick to what it needs to do. Beyond that initial piece of software, the rest should be plugins or applications..
1. You add more code and scripts for features, some customers might not even need.
2. You could potentially increase the requirements needed to run the software.
3. You've introduced features, some might not want to have, in some cases forcing them to use it. Sure, you can implement something to turn the feature on or off. If you do this, there is more code to be added and you still have the code sitting, doing nothing.
There are some community members that keep requesting features to be added that not only are slowing down development time, but also referencing my thoughts above. I've decided not yet to purchase Burning Board for this reason. I am being cautious due to what I currently see taking place in this community. I would be interested to hear from some of the team ( @Alexander Ebert ). Out of most software I see Burning Board as the most promising and hope the Woltlab team keeps up the amazing work.