The various modules you mention are just a handful of the thousands of modules that are available.  If those modules don't suit your needs or you find a bug you could try 1) Using a different module (either open source or commercial) 2) Contributing a patch to the specific module project 3) Creating your own module that solves your specific requirements.  I know many users who have taken one or more of the above actions and had great success.

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Joe Brinkman
DNN Corp.

I'm not sure the core modules being bug laden can really be mitigated by saying "well there are plenty of others to choose from". The core modules are just that - core, they are people's first exposure to DNN.

Now if the core modules are buggy, what about the the other modules that are being developed? [ I'm personally not interested in paid modules (although I did buy ActiveForums some years ago ] - there is no assurance of the quality. I just experience well-intentioned but buggy product.

The other important point is that the bugs may not be apparent to start off. So the Events module on my 4.9 site has been running mostly ok (it's needed various work-arounds to make it acceptable) however it is now a problem and stopping an upgrade to 5.2.4 because of the data that is now "stranded". So users make a commitment to the product only to be let down and stuck in the future.

[ Incidentally I tried to upload a screenshot of the response I got when I made my last post where it spat out 2 lines of text saying something about my post needing approving (unfortunately uploading is not allowed). One of the lines of text in its box was positioned mostly over the other so I couldn't actually read it all. So another bug :o).  I would have expected the dotnetnuke site to be the example of dnn working perfectly. ]