Musings of a Twisted Mind

I have collected comics since I was 4 years old (1977 for those that don't know). As such I will check comic book sites. One of them is newsarama which for years was run on the the good messageboard software vbulletin. Well newsarama was bought by a company and last summer they switched to Pluck forums. The result is less traffic, less users, and those that remained are angry, complaining ect... I stopped going there until recently and saw that people were still angry about it. As looking at this forum will tell you

So I got to thinking, is it just comic book fans that are this mad? So I decided to check LiveScience.com and lo and behold, more Pluck hatred and still more.

They don't have forums on their other Pluck linked sites. Wonder why?

So how does Pluck survive? Confideniality agreements for one. Promising upgrades that are always pushed back is another.

In my opinion the best forum software is the free phpbb and another free one that looks good is smf. But if you really want to pay, it should be vbulletin. Pluck should be paying its customers to use it.

Labels: Comic Books