As the one who made the offer, let me just say/reply...

>Well, um, no offense or anything, but isn't that kinda stupid?

No. Their site, their board. The offer was made as an offer, and in the same light that I wouldn't want MegaZone (no offense) poking around my domain, I respect and understand they might not want me to poke around theirs.

> I mean, You've all been complaining about the lack of this feature for
>close on a year now, and all we've heard is "I'll get around to it."
>Now, I know that we are getting this for free, and the expense is
>coming out of your pockets and what not, but if someone offers their
>help, and you turn it down because you're feeling posessive about an
>open-sourced(?) program, then why they hell did you open-source it, or
>give us a place to rant about it?

(a) Not only is this free and coming out of their pockets, it's their HOBBY. If your hobby is fun, then extra feature or not, it's working perfectly.

(b) This isn't a question about open-source or DCForums. This thread is about an Eyrie Forum upgrade. (See, the beauty of open-source is that you can modify it for individual uses.) If someone cobbled together a "fix" to have a "start new thread" link, DCForums might take it for future uprades, but until EPU used that upgrade it wouldn't matter. Don't confuse open-source with private use -- unless you'd like me to play with your computer's kernel. ;-)

(c) They opened the forums, I would imagine, to give people a place to DISCUSS the EPU stories. If you want to RANT, then I have a script called klogger.pl that you're welcome to use.

I hope I'm not out of turn replying here. When I made the offer, I did so because I figured if I could help out (and at the same time score fanboy points) all the better. It was never meant as a way to either step on anyone's toes or imply that the board should be better because the users wanted it better. My hope is that my thread/input/meme here is kaputsky...

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