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Re: Why are there so many FREE competing BBSs? [message #7996 is a reply to message #7982] Sun, 05 January 2003 23:51 Go to previous message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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The bigger the product the more people are needed to maintain it. Forum (any forum) is probably a small or a small-midlevel size application depeding on the complexity and feature set of the forum. As such it does not require more then 2-3 people to maintain it. Which is probably why you see so many forums in the market today.

When you change parts of the software that are part of a larger package you'll often discover that you are still limited by existing APIs and so on. So, you'll still be limited in regard to what you can change. You have no such litations when you start from scratch, you also can raise the requirments bar a little higher (script languages & database version), which otherwise may unleash the wrath of users who still use absolete versions software.

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