Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

VB3.6 Soon?

lexus

lexus

macrumors 68000
Original poster
Mar 26, 2006
1,569
0
Depends Greatly On The Weather
Do you think the Forums will be upgraded to Vbulletin 3.6 soon, I know it is still in Beta but it has some amazing features plus it is very stable, they are using it over on Vbulletin.com.

Just a thought.
 
vBulletin 3.6 is on the third beta, issued less than 2 weeks ago, and there are still known problems with it, so it's not clear when the beta period will be over. arn usually chooses to wait for officially released versions. We're already on the latest officially released version.

The new features are nice, but probably not worth risking the stability of MacRumors.

Among the new features: multi-post quoting, automatic links to quoted posts, auto-resizing of photo attachments, selecting threads vs. posts when doing a quick search, attachment pop-ups on forum display pages, and warnings when your Private Message inbox is nearly full.

Best of all: For the first time, signatures can be limited by line length automatically, so the moderators don't have to enforce that rule manually. :)
 
Why use a beta software as a fulltime use on a forum?

That is just asking for trouble. Not including that if there are major changes or even some minor but specific changes you have to go in and modify all source changes you made and make sure that all hacks you have running work again.

And with betas coming about every week or two that would mean you have to make sure the hacks and source code modifications work on every beta

Why not just wait till the Gold version comes out then run your private forum with the same modifications and make sure it works so that you have a clean update.

Let me reiterate. It is stupid to run a site on beta software that is changing every week and is unstable.

Now don't use vbulletin.com using 3.6 as an example why macrumors can, they created the software and i can guarantee you that theirs would be a hell of a lot more stable than the beta's out. Also they have almost zero if not zero extra vbulletin.org hacks running on the site. I am going to go on the case of zero hacks.
 
jelloshotsrule said:
multi-post quoting. mmmmmmmm i hate doing the tags myself. i bet that will reduce double posting (at least for me)
Click to expand...

well there has always been a easy modification on vbulletin.org that added this feature and it has only taken Jelsoft oh about....well....a very long fracking time to add it in standard.
 
I know I'm waiting until 3.6 goes gold to upgrade a forum I help run. Although I'll probably upgrade our test board to 3.6 beta to make sure our custom skin works and make any neccesary changes
 
I'm really looking forward to the multi-quote functionality, but I've been getting by for this long using the manual method so I'm not in any rush for it. ;) :cool:
 
dmw007 said:
No, if we were to lose MR, even for a short period of time.......... :eek:
Click to expand...

Yeah...remember that night a few nights ago...when it was down???





That was a terrible night.
 
AvSRoCkCO1067 said:
Yeah...remember that night a few nights ago...when it was down???

That was a terrible night.
Click to expand...

Was it, really?? Phew, if so, then I'm glad I wans't around - I would've had a heart attack! :eek: ;) :D
 
Anyone who takes a moment to consider it will understand that waiting for a release version will keep it calmer around here.

Think of all the hubbub that happens if the forums go down for even less than an hour, or if there's an annoying bug. Then imagine what would happen if it was like that for an extended period of time, and there were multiple bugs or issues going on at once. :eek:
 
yg17 said:
I know I'm waiting until 3.6 goes gold to upgrade a forum I help run. Although I'll probably upgrade our test board to 3.6 beta to make sure our custom skin works and make any neccesary changes
Click to expand...

More than likely 3.6 wont screw up a custom skin, it isn't like updating from 3.0 to 3.5 which screwed up my own custom skin. There may be very minor changes but nothing substantial that would make the skin unusable.
 
OutThere said:
Then imagine what would happen if it was like that for an extended period of time, and there were multiple bugs or issues going on at once. :eek:
Click to expand...


The world as we now know it would come to an end! :eek: ;)
 
vBulletin 3.6 is on the third beta, issued less than 2 weeks ago, and there are still known problems with it, so it's not clear when the beta period will be over.
Click to expand...
Feel free to take your time upgrading then. New features are nice, but I'd rather have stability. We aren't Microsoft here. ;) :p
 
OutThere said:
Anyone who takes a moment to consider it will understand that waiting for a release version will keep it calmer around here.

Think of all the hubbub that happens if the forums go down for even less than an hour, or if there's an annoying bug. Then imagine what would happen if it was like that for an extended period of time, and there were multiple bugs or issues going on at once. :eek:
Click to expand...
People get all upset when the smiles are out of order never mind when the forum is down.:p
 
arn must be rolling his eyes at us. He must be thinking...

*Upgrades won't happen until after WWDC and a point upgrade is released! Everybody, just just SHUT UP already!!!* :p
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back