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I think what Scotty is saying is that it is a massive amount of work that would take several hours to make the changes if you are an ASP coder. It would take days to try and explain how to make the changes to someone who does not know ASP coding.

There are no plans at present to bring back the version 8 interface, but if we have lots of people ask for it then will look in to it.

However, as the new drop down interface that was bought in over 5 years ago with version 9 that replaced the button style version 8 interface and not had any one else ask to go back to the old interface I think you might be on your own with this request.
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@Bruce, You probably still somewhere an upgrade from version 8.03, or am I the only one perhaps but seems to me that if one asks that this should be possible. The only thing I ask is an upgrade and that me messages, paragraphs, parts become completely transferred.
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It would not be economically viable to maintain a custom version 8 trunk of Web Wiz Forums just for yourself given the many thousands of hours of development time that would need to go in to maintaining and developing a separate version 8 trunk.

Version 10 has the same features as version 8, and more. As version 10 has more features buttons in version 8 were moved to menu items to make the interface less cluttered and also allow for the adding of extra options to support the new features.

If we carried on just adding buttons like in version 8 the interface would be so cluttered by now it would be impossible to use. For example a typical topic has over 12 options, plus another 16 for each post in that topic. 

A user looking at a page with 10 posts would have over a 172 buttons on that page and would be overwhelmed. 

The page would also put more strain on the server with over 172 extra connections to download buttons making slower loading times and higher bandwidth usage.
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