Yes. There will always be lazy service providers, and the best way to deal with them is to vote with your feet and simply move elsewhere. ezPublish does need imagemagick to generate the various sized image views as well as some other modules.

I simply found a host that could handle the job. Both akashik.net and e-builders.com can set you up with ezPublish. I have had excellent support with both. Akashik didn't charge a penny for the setup, and e-builders did an ezPublish upgrade at no cost.

I don't know if ezPublish was anything close to what the poster was looking for. I really appreciate the simplicity of csNews myself, but if he wanted articles that could be commented on and polls, forms, image management, links and calendar, it might be worth looking at. ezPublish has a really barebones threaded forum, so it's nothing I expect to use anytime soon.

But I try to watch the most promising contenders, which is why I'm here :)

Regards,

Matt