Tyke, this is the main reason for my post. i like Dolphin, and it does have the potential to be a good piece of software, but there are issues that need addressing other than trying to pack more features into it. i sometimes think that this is the main focus - to the detriment of all of the the other aspects that go towards providing and maintaining a package and community like this, and that includes support, stability, and providing all of the other general expectations that the public have. I see more know that some will argue that you cannot compare Dolphin to other products like Joomla, phpBB etc, but regardless of how similar / dissimilar they are - the expectations are the same. These other products set the bar that Boonex have to follow.

I know that it is not possible to fix all of these issues at once, but I truly think that the focus is in the wrong place. Having spent the past 20 years in the software industry, Dolphin is so very obviously a project being run by software engineers, none of which have any idea about project management. Dolphin is a typical example of what happens when you let softies take the wheel. From what I have seen over the past two or so years - this Fish is simply chasing it's tail. When it gets to where it set off to reach, the goal has been moved and so it has to set off again, and instead of having a community of dedicated followers, there are a small core of people surrounded by a high turnover of peripheral users, most of whom do not leave with a good impression.

Not that I am trying to be detrimental towards softies - After all, this is my own background. There are obviously some talented dev's working on this project and from what I understand, this is not paid work - or it does not pay well, but even so it needs someone with some formal management skills to give the project some direction or it will simply never be finished.