The mod community will embrace vB5 Connect.
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Wayne Luke
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At least there is money to be made for good mod developers. Whoever is the first to make a paid subscription and/or infraction system that can import data from vB4 will make a good chunk of change. Those are two fairly core features that for whatever reason didn't make the cut for vB5. Of course not every site sells subscriptions, but a lot do... But the lack of the infraction system is actually borderline crazy... Does anyone *not* rely on the infraction system in vB4 to track and control problematic users?Sphinx Search for vBulletin 4: https://marketplace.digitalpoint.com...tin-4.870/item
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Well for us, we use it to track minor things (like someone starting a thread in the wrong category), not just spammers or other bannable things.Sphinx Search for vBulletin 4: https://marketplace.digitalpoint.com...tin-4.870/item
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Gotta admit I did the same with infraction system. However that said a lot of people do use them. I for one will not even dream of updating without the subscription system. Site couldnt afford it. However as I already said, whats the rush?Comment
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I can see that view, however on our site it made it fair how mods were giving out bans. Before you would have 1 mod perm ban someone on a moody day and than it was hard to track when another mod just cleaned up the mess without making notes and than those notes were a pain. The infraction system was the best system on our site. It would have been nice to make it a little less harsh tho lol.Selling my BigBoard GamerzNeeds.net/forums Threads: 193 502, Posts: 1 540 045, Members: 718 566 It is listed here http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showt...3#post18297060
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I can see that view, however on our site it made it fair how mods were giving out bans. Before you would have 1 mod perm ban someone on a moody day and than it was hard to track when another mod just cleaned up the mess without making notes and than those notes were a pain. The infraction system was the best system on our site. It would have been nice to make it a little less harsh tho lol.Comment
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vB standards which are ATM "mods" only.
Note the quotes in my earlier post:
...and if you have a second to read this...Comment
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At least there is money to be made for good mod developers. Whoever is the first to make a paid subscription and/or infraction system that can import data from vB4 will make a good chunk of change. Those are two fairly core features that for whatever reason didn't make the cut for vB5. Of course not every site sells subscriptions, but a lot do... But the lack of the infraction system is actually borderline crazy... Does anyone *not* rely on the infraction system in vB4 to track and control problematic users?
As for the vB5 debate i'm unsure myself whether or not to make the upgrade, at the moment i see no point for me as to me vb5 seems like a downgrade to me that people are paying for as it doesn't yet have the features i'd need to upgrade, but as Iain mentioned if its progressing how it is then who knows, it may end up being better than vB4 and that will be the time i choose to upgrade.
As an ex-staff member (of some time now) of the DB-Tech team i can safely say (and i am no obligated to say it either, just my two cents) that no matter how good/bad vB5 is, i'm certain Iain will have had plans to fit his business needs and shift DB-Tech forward regardless of vB as his business isn't dependant on vB at all, now i'm not 100% clued up on DB-Tech policies/plans/aims and such but i do know from the time working with Iain is that he's a brilliant strategist and has a fantastic business head and when it comes to knowledge i'm sure he could rival some of the top brass businesses, not to mention an absolutly top quality team behind him, he will get done what needs to be done and to the highest standard. Just look at how sucessful his business is from filling those gaps, to go from a 4-man team (Myself, Deceptor, Iain and Fillip) to a team of 7 which his business has probably doubled if not more over the past year or so, With some of the most well known and most used Mods its safe to say he knows what he's doing. To totally disregard what he's said would be like saying that the queen of England doesn't exist.
Now i'm not here to sing Iains praises, his company more than does that for him, what i want to make clear is that just because everyone elses opinion on vB is different, doesn't mean you should dismiss such a valuable opinion that comes from Iain and the team.
My personal opinion of vB5 aside from missing the features i want is that it looks quite good, sure it has things i'll never use (like activity stream, blogs and other things) it seems like its designed with ease of use for both coders and non-coders. having had a little go on my friends vb5 test boards i can safely say it appears much easier to do things and the steps needed to do them are dramatically reduced. I like the drag and drop feature very much and since i used to skin a bit for vB3 it looks as though it might be even easier to skin than vB3 (not a huge fan of skinning for vB4 as vb4 style vars were lame, i liked the old style stylevars which got removed).
On the whole i'm sure IB know what they are doing despite not showing this when they took over Jelsoft. Have faith and i'm sure it'll pay off.Colin F is my hero!Comment
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You see, xF takes the Model-View-Controller (MVC for short) principle and sticks to it. In other words, you cannot access the database in the "View" layer (vB calls it the "presentation" layer). This means you have to ensure you've fetched all your data prior to actually sending it to the presentation layer.Comment
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