[madpickle]

I got vB 5.0 and there is no support at all and your ticket never get answer. the program is very very poor almost no adds on special for vB 5.0.5 got nothing at all.
The main thing is after you pay all you get is a middle finger nothing else, do not spend money on this crap vbulletin 5!

[katie hunter]

Vb 4.x is way better.

[Max Taxable]

And vB 3.8.X is way betternat!

[Simon Lloyd]

To be honest it is marketed as a beta!

[WEBDosser]

It's sad I know but have you seen how many people don't use forums any more, and how hard it is to get members for your forum and then to be able to keep them interested.

They say facebook does not harm forums, well I beg to differ on that one.

[Digital Jedi]

I still don't get why people are buying vB5, knowing vB5 is new and has issues, only to get angry when that all turns out to be true. Did anybody read the forums, demo the software on the website or Google it? I know if I ignore bad reviews, I only have myself to blame.

[crazyboy1661]

I think I am on safe side with 4.2.2 version.

[englishtalk]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

I still don't get why people are buying vB5, knowing vB5 is new and has issues, only to get angry when that all turns out to be true. Did anybody read the forums, demo the software on the website or Google it? I know if I ignore bad reviews, I only have myself to blame.

Because if they're selling it, it should be fit for consumption: it should work. This isn't shareware, there should be refunds for anyone with an unfixable problem. They're just begging to be sued.

[shellcode]

I've seen far too many open-source projects have really poor documentation, if any at all..

But vbulletin 5 is really very poor than others..

To this day I still hear people complain that Vbulletin 5 has poor documentation.

Tell me guys; why?

[mokujin]

I have 2 licenses, 1 vb3 and 1 vb4. but will never buy vb5, let's see in a few years for vb6

[shellcode]

Originally Posted by mokujin

I have 2 licenses, 1 vb3 and 1 vb4. but will never buy vb5, let's see in a few years for vb6

genius lvl 6000+ :P

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by englishtalk

Because if they're selling it, it should be fit for consumption: it should work. This isn't shareware, there should be refunds for anyone with an unfixable problem. They're just begging to be sued.

If that were the criterion for being able to sue people, then I should be able to sue for every car I've owned. Ever. "Because they're selling" is terrible reasoning for "I should buy it", without doing a shred of research. I check the reviews before I buy a .99 cent app.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by WEBDosser

It's sad I know but have you seen how many people don't use forums any more, and how hard it is to get members for your forum and then to be able to keep them interested.

They say facebook does not harm forums, well I beg to differ on that one.

It will someday go the way of MySpace though. Might take a little longer due to mobile addiction, but it will.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

It will someday go the way of MySpace though. Might take a little longer due to mobile addiction, but it will.

Keep in mind, the reason MySpace "went out", as the saying goes, is because MySpace was ultimately a terrible service. The code was dated and slow. Users could customize their pages to the extent that they typically bogged it down with videos and music embeds that slowed it even more. (And was never valid embed code.) And the ability to use custom CSS resulted in some of the most god-awful color combinations you could ever possibly imagine in your worst, fever-induced nightmares.

Add to all that, there was nothing to do there. There was no feed to see what your Friends were doing, and they didn't implement one until years after Facebook made it the standard.


With that said, MySpace is kind of nice now. Not what it was, but kind of nice: https://myspace.com/digitaljedi


Facebook isn't killing forums. They're not going to Facebook for discussion of their favorite niche. They're going for a one stop source of all their niches, friends and family's up-to-date info. If they have an interest in a particular topic, they'll go to those sites. After all, the internet is a big place. If being able to do all the stuff you do on Facebook killed all the other sites that specialize in what Facebook also does, Facebook would be killing the internet. No, people will seek out their favorite topic in spite of Facebook, and they'll visit your forum if they 1) find it in the sea of forums that already cover your topic, 2) have an interest in actually discussion that topic 3) are attracted to the vibe of your forum. Which are the things you had for and against you long before Facebook existed.

What Facebook might be killing, though, is off-topic, general discussion forums. Those were tough to build in the first place. I can't see them thriving in a Facebook world, easily.

[englishtalk]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

If that were the criterion for being able to sue people, then I should be able to sue for every car I've owned. Ever. "Because they're selling" is terrible reasoning for "I should buy it", without doing a shred of research. I check the reviews before I buy a .99 cent app.

Poor logic. "not being right for me" is no reason to sue someone. "Not doing what they said it would do" is a perfect reason to sue someone. If you bought a brand new BMW and found it would only turn left, you could easily and successfully sue. Did you?