"CRYBABY"???

We are using a CMS which can be customized with 3rd party extensions. Out of the box, the CMS allows you to create and organize content (i.e. we can write articles and assign them to sections and categories). It also has some options with regard to how that content is displayed, such as do you want to show one article on the front page or three. Finally, it semi automates creating menu links to the content.

Everything else is 3rd party extension - the ability to comment on articles, the ability to have an avatar, the forum, the main site profiles, the personal messaging system.

It's kind of like how you install plug ins for your browser. You probably have installed several of them - Quick Time, Flash, maybe the Google tool bar. Go to the Firefox website and you can see all the extensions that you can install for that browser. If you ever have installed extensions or plug ins, you know that some of them work better than others, and some of them don't play nice with others.

Anyway, the latest version of the forum extension has some problems, one of which is that you couldn't unsubscribe from threads via the profile extension, which you could do on the prior version. It was a pain in the ass for people to have to navigate to each thread to unsubscribe, and none of us felt like debugging the extension code, so we temporarily turned on the forum profile so people could unsubscribe using the subscription list that is there. Once the patch, plug in or new version is released that corrects the problem, we will fully integrate the profile extension with the forum extension.