vBulletin 2.3.0 versus the latest

[Comtech]

Ok, I actually run the latest version of Vbulletin. The reason of this thread is to ask you to name great features (not bloat ware) that are in the latest versus 2.3.0

I am doing this so I can go back to a site I visit and offer them a detailed list of features that may help their forum.

They are also worried about there being a larger database requirement. But if they are running a board with 2,000+ members then I would believe their host would hold up just fine.

[filburt1]

3.6, and indeed the 3.x series, is essentially a complete rewrite. While the two are incompatible excluding data importing from 2.3 to 3.6, the technical requirements are largely the same.

[simsim]

I wanted to do some copy/paste from the changelog in the Members' Area, but realized it's too huge that it would be useless to post.

Unless their 2.3.0 vB is hugely modified, I cannot see a single reason why they don't upgrade to the latest version! It's like someone who don't want to upgrade from Windows 3.1 to WindowsXP, that is not say from MS-DOS!

[filburt1]

Just because you can upgrade doesn't mean you should. If your forum is running 2.3 and it works fine for you, there's no reason to upgrade.

[simsim]

Define "works fine for you".

[Comtech]

How about a top ten list of new features you find worth the upgrade?

I know each member will have a different top ten list...but it may help. They are trying to revision their community, to bring vigor back and I would like to help them. One thing I honestly feel they are in need of is an upgrade to the latest.

I just need to convince them that it really isn't "Fat" and is worth upgrading to.

I can't name a top ten, but I do personally like the Plugin system.

[simsim]

New features in vB 3:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51821

New features in 3.5:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=138544

New features in 3.6:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186803

I think if you just let them review the above links, it would make them very eager to upgrade.

[Cromulent]

If it ain't broken don't fix it.

[ChipTz]

If it ain't broken don't fix it.

Hummm... I don't think I can agree with this. What operative system are you running on your PC? Was the previous one broken?

I don't know if vBulletin still supports 2.x versions, I don't think it does. This only would be a reason to upgrade.

[simsim]

Everyone who's defending this approach is already running latest version! If people shouldn't upgrade because their 2.3.0 (or any other older version) forum is "working fine" or "ain't broken", then why Jelsoft had developed new versions in the first place?

[MRGTB]

Ok, I actually run the latest version of Vbulletin. The reason of this thread is to ask you to name great features (not bloat ware) that are in the latest versus 2.3.0

I am doing this so I can go back to a site I visit and offer them a detailed list of features that may help their forum.

They are also worried about there being a larger database requirement. But if they are running a board with 2,000+ members then I would believe their host would hold up just fine.

To be honest I thought a little about this the other day. I read members talking about the latest version of vBulletin having a lot more features to use than vBulletin 2. But then I started to see when sites get really busy, they start turning off all these extra features that later versions of vBulletin has to speed there boards up and save on server resources.

Which kind of defeats things a little, meaning they could have used vBulletin 2 without them in the first place, and they wouldn't have needed to turn them off.

[Floris]

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version 3 : enhanced template editor

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[phill2003]

Ok, I actually run the latest version of Vbulletin. The reason of this thread is to ask you to name great features (not bloat ware) that are in the latest versus 2.3.0

I am doing this so I can go back to a site I visit and offer them a detailed list of features that may help their forum.

They are also worried about there being a larger database requirement. But if they are running a board with 2,000+ members then I would believe their host would hold up just fine.

What I dont understand is why you feel the need to pressurise a site you visit to change to a version of vbulletin that YOU want them to.

What has it got to do with you what they run? I am quite sure that if they run a website that they are more than capable of making a rational decision as to what software they run on it and what they dont.

Perhaps you would be better advised to let them run and operate their site as they see fit......

[Quillz]

To put it simply, vB 3 is better than vB 2 is just about every possible way.

[JakeS]

Another thing you could tell them, easier customization, example: Import Product in 3, Go through editing files and files in 2.