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I honestly haven’t expected this frame from vbulletin team. I have fixed their bugs and issues couple of days and the end is not even near 
There is a list of major critical bugs, which made the forum unusable for end users (!):
- New system with style variables covers about 20% of them. Albums, navbar, uploading, even menu in user’s private area – hardcoded in the templates. So, if your forum is in different color scheme, you should correct not only the list of the variables, but routinely search in which template you should correct hardcoded color values. Trust me this is a day work at least. Really disturbing
- I understand, the “div” layout is so cool against “table”, but now there is not one page looking the same in different browsers. So you should expect hard-to-detect bugs, like the date-time of the messages is not displayed in some IE versions (I can’t fix this yet…)
- Layout is badly written, so if you have any end users with screen resolution of 1024*768 or less, you should change the templates, or the layout will be unusable for them (controls and links are placed one over another)
- Extended editor mode won’t work in IE7 or IE8 with compatibility mode. You see enormous page with no controls at all and that’s all. Fix: remove class=”…” from <p> with forum rules.
- Attaches won’t work. Fix: this is server security issue, you should disable mod_security in .htaccess
- There is a bug in the search template layout (new messages), so the column with statistics (posts: replies
in IE7 looks like char-by-char vertically, something like that:
- r
- e
- p
- l
- i
- e
- s
- etc. Fix: put a min-width: 75px or so in the corresponding class.
- Login-password pair in the header don’t work in Opera Mini, you can’t log in via them. Only if you try to post a reply, there is additional login-password prompt, which surprisingly works.
- IE7 textarea background is always white in editor mode. So great if your forum color is white also! Quick reply mode – there are no controls at all, so the mode is unusable for end users.
- Multiquote – the checked messages remains checked after reply, so you should uncheck them back, or they will be included in any next quote. Very funny, indeed
- Moderator checked messages disappear after switching to different page in the theme. You can’t select a set of messages from 2 or more pages – how should I keep my forum in order?
- Setting for DST time difference for guests is there from 3.* versions (maybe even earlier), but don’t work till now.
You think this is full list? Far from it! There is enormous amount of small issues here and there, (for example there is a setting for columns in smiles box, but the width, hardcoded in the template, make this setting unusable – you can’t set more than 3 columns anyway) but you spend many hours to fix them
Honestly, vbulletin team should be very ashamed for delivering this New Year “present” to their customers.
Other forum 3.8.x owners, please be advised – 4.0.0 PL1 is very raw and full of critical bugs, your end users will not be pleased with this “upgrade”, and you (if you can), will spend great amount of time fixing so many bugs and issues for your own money!!!
There is a list of major critical bugs, which made the forum unusable for end users (!):- New system with style variables covers about 20% of them. Albums, navbar, uploading, even menu in user’s private area – hardcoded in the templates. So, if your forum is in different color scheme, you should correct not only the list of the variables, but routinely search in which template you should correct hardcoded color values. Trust me this is a day work at least. Really disturbing
- I understand, the “div” layout is so cool against “table”, but now there is not one page looking the same in different browsers. So you should expect hard-to-detect bugs, like the date-time of the messages is not displayed in some IE versions (I can’t fix this yet…)
- Layout is badly written, so if you have any end users with screen resolution of 1024*768 or less, you should change the templates, or the layout will be unusable for them (controls and links are placed one over another)
- Extended editor mode won’t work in IE7 or IE8 with compatibility mode. You see enormous page with no controls at all and that’s all. Fix: remove class=”…” from <p> with forum rules.
- Attaches won’t work. Fix: this is server security issue, you should disable mod_security in .htaccess
- There is a bug in the search template layout (new messages), so the column with statistics (posts: replies
in IE7 looks like char-by-char vertically, something like that:- r
- e
- p
- l
- i
- e
- s
- etc. Fix: put a min-width: 75px or so in the corresponding class.
- Login-password pair in the header don’t work in Opera Mini, you can’t log in via them. Only if you try to post a reply, there is additional login-password prompt, which surprisingly works.
- IE7 textarea background is always white in editor mode. So great if your forum color is white also! Quick reply mode – there are no controls at all, so the mode is unusable for end users.
- Multiquote – the checked messages remains checked after reply, so you should uncheck them back, or they will be included in any next quote. Very funny, indeed
- Moderator checked messages disappear after switching to different page in the theme. You can’t select a set of messages from 2 or more pages – how should I keep my forum in order?
- Setting for DST time difference for guests is there from 3.* versions (maybe even earlier), but don’t work till now.
You think this is full list? Far from it! There is enormous amount of small issues here and there, (for example there is a setting for columns in smiles box, but the width, hardcoded in the template, make this setting unusable – you can’t set more than 3 columns anyway) but you spend many hours to fix them
Honestly, vbulletin team should be very ashamed for delivering this New Year “present” to their customers.
Other forum 3.8.x owners, please be advised – 4.0.0 PL1 is very raw and full of critical bugs, your end users will not be pleased with this “upgrade”, and you (if you can), will spend great amount of time fixing so many bugs and issues for your own money!!!
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