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Originally posted by decadence
John, thank you for your kind reply.
Having a passing interest I glanced at the company's vb....com announcements section, and - with wry amusement  - read a note from the dev. team; explaining their interim 'new' vB version 2.3.2 needed 'x' line changing to fix something, although new ready-amended files were downloadable for those who'd not already installed that (earlier) 2.3.2 build. Having worked in the software development & publishing arena myself in the relatively distant past, I'm amused to see not much has changed in terms of "bug free" final master versions not ever being quite so all out bug free! 
I fully appreciate and see the logic and sense in that course of action in the last line of your post, and I look forward to continuing to use the GreekChat.com forums.
Kind wishes,
Richard.
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Just so you know . . . vBulletin software is the best of a group of bad solutions for this type of software. In fact, most pay sites that use it use a hacked code to enable features they desire, and disable ones that drag on server performance. We are using a standard version, it seems, and as such you should expect some minor bugs, as that is what the vB software has shown in the past.
So . . . unless you have the time to decompile-'n-dig and fix what you don't like, you're stuck with it. Problems are endemic in the code. Take a little time and read up on some problems with vB, or I can point you to one site in particular that has done extensive work on the code to make it streamlined - it's a pay site though, and that kind of work is unrealistic for John and this site.
He does a great job just keeping it working regularly, it has nothing to do with him - it's just that the software is the best of the bunch, which doesn't say much.