A lot of people who have stuck with traditional Forums do so as much because they are not interested in the “Web 2.0″ revolution as they do from lack of a better alternative.

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I guess their existing enterprise MT version isn’t able to compete against all the white label social network providers, so they are trying to migrate MT away from the “just blogging” market and turn it into community software as well.

If someone would take the time to create a great base forum and integrate so called “web 2.0″ tech into, they would be a lot better off than taking a blog and hacking in a crude Facebookesque message wall and calling it an enterprise level forum.

- it works
- it’s simple
- it has plug-in support
- it’s searchable
- it has a huge user base and development community

I am so sick of people saying that the webforums are web 1.0 or “in the dark ages”. The fact of the matter is we can take ALL the content that the web2.0 creates, bring it into our forums, and lock the doors from outsiders. The webforums people are moving to facebook, not a “social web blog forum aggregator happyfuntimes”.

I’d gladly pay for some of these features, but I wonder where this price point came from? Expression Engine is one of their competitors, has all of these features and costs a couple hundred bucks. I guess this is the “enterprise business” tax.

Bummer.