I hate to bust anyone's bubble, but it is not the job of a software developer to ensure that major releasee are ompatible with any third party addons or hacks. The providers of those addons or hacks, should be able to provide an upgraded addon for a minimal charge or even free. That's the way it works everywhere else in the software world and there's no reason to expect things to work any differently here. Sorry.... that's life in the big city.

Besides.... if Boonex would give Dolphin 7 the see more features that the rest of the social networking world already have, you wouldn't need to worry about mods just to get things the way you want.

The rest of the social networking world already has:
Photo albums, Privacy controls, and Decent forums... just to name a few. I certainly hope the back end of Dolphin 7 will show a big improvement. Currently, the admin backend of Dolphin, in a word, sucks. I should not have to go rummaging around in the MySQL database to change things. Orca forums are a joke.... no subcategories.... no choice of how threads are displayed.... I can go on and on. I know there's a phpBB integration, but phpBB is a joke also.... there's new exploits discovered almost daily. Why not just provide an integration to vBulletin or Invision and not try to reinvent the wheel. Once you have an integration to Invision or vBulletin, it opens the door to a lot of addons for those products... many of them FREE or very reasonably priced. For either Vbulletin or Invision, there is an excellent FREE arcade game script, a FREE youtube integration, and much more.... all of which could be part of a Dolphin based website with forum software such as Invision Board integrated. The we coul talk about commercial addons for Invision or vBulletin such as Photopost, PP Classifieds, or reviewpost.... all excellent scripts.

I like Dolphin because of the video chat, video IM, Whiteboard, and blogs all bundled together, The photos, classifieds, and forums however, have a long way to go.

If Dolphin 7 doesn't bring the aforementioned improvements, then I will have to consider other alternatives. In any case, if Dophin 7 provided a good core system to which scripts such as Invision, Photopost, PP Classifieds, and others could be easily integrated, I would buy it in a split second. There's an Invision integration out there, but it'sot complete. It does work though. If anyone wants to see it running within Dolphin, along with a really good arcade game script, let me know.

Then again, maybe Dolphin 7 will bring everything I'm looking for, in one neat tidy package. As long as when I get it, I'm not too old to remember why I wanted it.