I am now running my forums from the root of microsoftliveforums.com

I just became very tired of it, and run no vBadvanced products at all now..

I think people get tired of the boxy look after a while. I played around with the vba templates quite a bit to the point that the boxes weren't drawn any more so you just had content on the page, almost looked better.

Which other portal is just as good out there?
vBPortal ?

Yaa, i would say vBportal is just as good..