ummmmmmm I noticed the coppermine and the forum, but didnt notice bazar was a stand alone app.
Just out of curiosity have bridged the 2 ? if you look on Coppermines site you can bridge the 2 systems so they share a member list, so sign up for 1 sign up for both kinda deal, rather than people signing up several times to each part, if you havent something to look into
I've built several directory style sites with front page, fusion, dreamweaver, using templates, css, frameworks the whole 9 yards, and nothing is flexible enough to handle mass traffic and rapid growth as well as offering real automation.
I spent the best part of a year trying various methods of building something workable and has scalability and a front end thats JUST that a front end and has no effect on the back, just doesnt work, so now i decided to just learn a new language (php & mysql), about 2 months ago and write it all from the ground up.
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