Glad to hear it worked out for you. It's been a while since I've worked with these vBulletin versions but I believe the navbar and forumhome templates have structural changes around 3.8.5 namely the adding of a security token to mark forums as read.
Try this: Browse your forum hit "Quick Links > Mark Forums As Read" on the navbar. If you see a security token missing error you should revert both those templates. If you don't receive the error you should be okay to leave the templates alone. If you feel comfortable editing the template yourself, you can do a compare and make the changes manually but I suspect you aren't very comfortable with code.
As far as running 3.8.5 - I wouldn't do it. 3.8.7p3 is the only 'old' version that's still seeing security patches from vBulletin. Upgrading you forum license I believe is $175. For me, the peace of mind knowing that security patches will come if there ever is an issue is well worth the $175 to me.
While we're talking about upgrades, with 4.2 I've recommended to my clients that they bite the bullet and upgrade to vBulletin 4. 4.2 is stable and light years better than 4.0. Unless you have custom coding, a custom style, or a plugin that you *need* and isn't available on vB 4 and you cannot afford to have patched for vB 4 there really is no reason to stick with 3.8.
The only caveat to upgrading now is vB 5 isn't too far off and you will have to pay again to upgrade to vBulletin 5 when it's released. It's not stopping me but it's something you may want to consider. I bought a new forum license a few weeks ago and am planning on upgrading an existing vB 3.8.7 license in the next few weeks.
Try this: Browse your forum hit "Quick Links > Mark Forums As Read" on the navbar. If you see a security token missing error you should revert both those templates. If you don't receive the error you should be okay to leave the templates alone. If you feel comfortable editing the template yourself, you can do a compare and make the changes manually but I suspect you aren't very comfortable with code.
As far as running 3.8.5 - I wouldn't do it. 3.8.7p3 is the only 'old' version that's still seeing security patches from vBulletin. Upgrading you forum license I believe is $175. For me, the peace of mind knowing that security patches will come if there ever is an issue is well worth the $175 to me.
While we're talking about upgrades, with 4.2 I've recommended to my clients that they bite the bullet and upgrade to vBulletin 4. 4.2 is stable and light years better than 4.0. Unless you have custom coding, a custom style, or a plugin that you *need* and isn't available on vB 4 and you cannot afford to have patched for vB 4 there really is no reason to stick with 3.8.
The only caveat to upgrading now is vB 5 isn't too far off and you will have to pay again to upgrade to vBulletin 5 when it's released. It's not stopping me but it's something you may want to consider. I bought a new forum license a few weeks ago and am planning on upgrading an existing vB 3.8.7 license in the next few weeks.
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