Man it is strange. I hear about SMF. I have learned a lot and learned to love SMF. But out of every forum i am part of, I bet I get one reply on every 10 things I post. And those aren't usually helpful. Just find it ironic.
You talking about the SMF support forums? I would have to agree. Not one of the more useful or helpful support environments for forum software, or related software. I have always managed to get responses or assistance on the phpbb forums relatively quickly, and other places like mkportal the response time and help is amazing. SMF I probably still have some questions there that never got answered from a year ago.
I'm working on a mod for SMF and posted there about 2 weeks ago, still waiting for a response. Probalbly going to ditch the project as by the time I get a reply I'll be into vBulletin.
Yeah its really odd. Just to answer simple question , the community makes it seem like a hassle. It is a great forum and not difficult to theme once someone leads you in the right direction. I think they should have a list of php snippets to can be used to display menu items. I mean thats all they are.