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So what exactly will be changed in 1.4

Yep. The Linux Kernel's philosophy is "release early, release often," and it is the biggest open-source project ever. Waiting for the perfect software is stupid, because no software will never be perfect, or even near perfection. Your philosophy is flawed and also contradicts itself: if only a few users use this "perfect" software few bugs will be reported, thus making it all the less perfect.

Your "essential features" philosophy is flawed as well. Who's to say whether something's essential or optional? You have redundant crap like the forum-select dropdown and topic review integrated into the core while features like polls and subforums are not. The forum-select dropdown thing wastes bandwidth, requires the same amount of clicks (even more with javascript disabled) to navigate than with the traditional method, and adds unnecessary complexity to the JS. The topics review wastes bandwidth yet only saves two clicks of the back and forward buttons. Rarely ever are these features used, but they can be easily integrated through the extension system if anything. On the other hand, polls and subforums, which are a pain in the ass to integrate and style through the extension system, are deemed nonessential, but in reality are used and requested 100x more than the former two features.

Meh.

Your posts are coherent and useful. Please make more.

"Olympic" maybe?

Anyway, marijuana

Hahaha. Furries are funny

assassination

Color

I've never really found the need for an MVC framework. Or MVC for that matter. All I need is my templating engine and PDO and I'm good to go But then again, I was never involved in maintaining a large project.

I tried CodeIgniter and found that it took 100ms to load a blank page. That did it for me.

That's because there are no statements after the if()s (except on the first one, which echos ' checked="checked"'). Try

                            <label><input type="radio" name="form[show_side_bar]" value="0"<?php if ($user['show_side_bar'] == '0') echo ' checked="checked"' ?> />&nbsp;Show Left Blocks<br /></label>
                            <label><input type="radio" name="form[show_side_bar]" value="1"<?php if ($user['show_side_bar'] == '1') echo ' checked="checked"' ?> />&nbsp;Hide Left Blocks<br /></label>

                            <label><input type="radio" name="form[switch_side_bar]" value="0"<?php if ($user['switch_side_bar'] == '0') echo ' checked="checked"' ?> />&nbsp;Show Right Blocks<br /></label>
                            <label><input type="radio" name="form[switch_side_bar]" value="1"<?php if ($user['switch_side_bar'] == '1') echo ' checked="checked"' ?> />&nbsp;Hide Right Blocks<br /></label>

The closing tag (?>) implies a semicolon, which transforms your if(..) statements into if(..); which essentially means "do nothing no matter what." Just a fun fact if you were wondering why PHP didn't throw a parse error