[MENTION=3]Max Taxable[/MENTION] Feel free to expand... I truly am not sure what they are trying to accomplish.
I will say that a lot of the features that have been added to vbulletin, in my opinion seem to take away from the activity level of the forum. For example (although a vb3 addition) Social Groups...give people a place to have private discussions and don't even register in the new posts. That activity is largely un-noticable and can make a small forum seem even more desolate. Even the photo album feature creates activity areas that don't appear when someone looks for new posts/activity.
I like the integrated comment section on vb4's CMS articles where the comments become part of a thread. That's a step in the right direction. If the comments are simply posted to an article, they don't easily get seen by the casual visitor. Blogs are another area of division of forum activity that I'm not crazy about.
I will say that a lot of the features that have been added to vbulletin, in my opinion seem to take away from the activity level of the forum. For example (although a vb3 addition) Social Groups...give people a place to have private discussions and don't even register in the new posts. That activity is largely un-noticable and can make a small forum seem even more desolate. Even the photo album feature creates activity areas that don't appear when someone looks for new posts/activity.
I like the integrated comment section on vb4's CMS articles where the comments become part of a thread. That's a step in the right direction. If the comments are simply posted to an article, they don't easily get seen by the casual visitor. Blogs are another area of division of forum activity that I'm not crazy about.