IMO, most of the dissatisfaction is where the software product went, not the concept of the product. If it were a problem with the concept there would be less activity here
100's of factors in that question.
At the moment not until I could rip XF apart and add a gallery.
I have VBGallery from photopost installed with 23K + images in it that is an add-on for vBulletin.
I guess I could convert it to work with this forum or convert a photopost pro plugin to work...
Old school person here. I could care less about a persons avatar on a threadbit. Many times on website setups for clients avatars and signatures are off even in the postbit (only shown in profile / memberlist).
Post icons are great as they are simple subject or mood expressions per thread.
computer / network technician - 15 years
website admin /coder / design / support - 6 to 9 years
Played w/ VB since 2001 (ver 2.0)
Even use to run a BBS back in the days of 8 bit ANSI grafix and 200 modem lines :)