After VB5 has been out for what, like 2 years now? We avoided upgrading until initial bugs and features were squared away. I'm thinking 5 is pretty stable now eh?
With the recent breaking of Facebook connector, and endless spammers getting in to our site despite Spam-O-Matic, StopForumSpam, and Akismet, I'm hunting for a replacement forum.
The VB stopped any work on VB4 except the most egregious security bugs. But I can't help thinking there will be some exploit (if not already) that is helping sneak spam into the forum. We can hardly manage it any more.
We use a heavily modified custom, purchased 3rd party theme for our VB4. One of the things that held me back from VB5 is thinking we'd be stuck in pretty basic theme-editing capabilities. Branding is important for us and I don't want too many limitations as far as design.
We have not used the CMS part of VB4 so that is not a huge concern.
We HAVE used a lot of the advanced configurations of VB4, the forum-level and user-group level permissions to change who can do what and what forums are hidden and to whom. We use the calendar, and user-created groups. We use the reputation and reporting system for moderators to keep and eye on things.
But there are also other things that are broken. The WYSIWYG editor has trouble, button icons missing, sometimes people can't even enter a new line, we have to switch to advanced or simple editor etc. I'm tired of stupid bugs like this.
There has always been a kind of limitation on the entire search system, with what it's able to index and search. We have a million and a half posts with over a hundred thousand threads and I never did try to move us to any alternate searching/indexing tools. So I also want very robust searching, fast indexing, etc.
I want the mobile responsive support, since users don't like Tapatalk and their popup banner on every page load.
So basically, I'm wondering, if I move to VB5, what could potentially be missing that VB4 has? Can we do all the same advanced permissions and such? Will we be able to fully migrate all users/forums/threads/posts/attachments/calendar/gallery/permissions/statistics/etc etc etc? Can we even migrate passwords so people will be able to immediately log in to the new forum?
Do we have complete control over the theme? Are there many 3rd party theme creators yet? Are there full-width themes available?
Is anything in VB5 completely buggy still or broken?
How is the API, for building my own plugins? Is that robust?
I'm just wondering in a general sense, if it's worth upgrading. Did anybody else on VB4 in here do it and find it was amazing?
With the recent breaking of Facebook connector, and endless spammers getting in to our site despite Spam-O-Matic, StopForumSpam, and Akismet, I'm hunting for a replacement forum.
The VB stopped any work on VB4 except the most egregious security bugs. But I can't help thinking there will be some exploit (if not already) that is helping sneak spam into the forum. We can hardly manage it any more.
We use a heavily modified custom, purchased 3rd party theme for our VB4. One of the things that held me back from VB5 is thinking we'd be stuck in pretty basic theme-editing capabilities. Branding is important for us and I don't want too many limitations as far as design.
We have not used the CMS part of VB4 so that is not a huge concern.
We HAVE used a lot of the advanced configurations of VB4, the forum-level and user-group level permissions to change who can do what and what forums are hidden and to whom. We use the calendar, and user-created groups. We use the reputation and reporting system for moderators to keep and eye on things.
But there are also other things that are broken. The WYSIWYG editor has trouble, button icons missing, sometimes people can't even enter a new line, we have to switch to advanced or simple editor etc. I'm tired of stupid bugs like this.
There has always been a kind of limitation on the entire search system, with what it's able to index and search. We have a million and a half posts with over a hundred thousand threads and I never did try to move us to any alternate searching/indexing tools. So I also want very robust searching, fast indexing, etc.
I want the mobile responsive support, since users don't like Tapatalk and their popup banner on every page load.
So basically, I'm wondering, if I move to VB5, what could potentially be missing that VB4 has? Can we do all the same advanced permissions and such? Will we be able to fully migrate all users/forums/threads/posts/attachments/calendar/gallery/permissions/statistics/etc etc etc? Can we even migrate passwords so people will be able to immediately log in to the new forum?
Do we have complete control over the theme? Are there many 3rd party theme creators yet? Are there full-width themes available?
Is anything in VB5 completely buggy still or broken?
How is the API, for building my own plugins? Is that robust?
I'm just wondering in a general sense, if it's worth upgrading. Did anybody else on VB4 in here do it and find it was amazing?
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