pyronaught

My biggest issue with DNN, other than how slow and bloated it has become, is that there is really only one forum option and development on it appears to be dead and support (community or otherwise) is completely non existent. The forum is a major feature of my site and it is currently killing me since the DNN forum is inferior to the php based forums my competition all use. Staging and upgrading DNN is a major pain too, then when you run into problems (which happens a LOT), getting answers is next to impossible. It just seems to be a dying platform.

Another big DNN problem is how freaking expensive the shopping cart modules are. Smith Cart is a never ending money hole due to their short period on free updgrades and then requiring you to pay full price again after that, combined with how buggy it is. Cart Viper is the only other viable solution and while it is superior to Smith Cart, it is also very expensive now. Meanwhile WordPress has a FREE commerce plugin and most other plugins are either free or very reasonably priced.