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After wrestling with so many bugs and excuses in vb5, I'm done. I migrated my 2 month old forum off of the software before I could dig the hole any deeper.
I switched to lets say, Brand X (
) and things are just amazing when they work without excuses and headache.
In one half day I went from broken, laggy, slow software to a forum that my users are actually excited about.
- dev support and add-ons
- speed, my god finally no hanging for no reason.
- proper AJAX page refreshes so things show up the way they are supposed to when they are supposed to
- speed!! you just can't believe how slow things you feel until your move off of it
- better mobile experience. ALL of my responsive design works!
- reputation that makes sense
- real time alerts
I've spent upwards of 20 hours a week every week for the last 2 months having to reinvent the wheel. Can't figure out, get pointed to the 2 year old JIRA, hunt google for a workaround, do it again.
So what does vb5 do well?
-Basic Theming.- site builder and the stylevar are pretty good and really let you customize every detail of the stock style. But there is almost no aftermarket support so I won't expand this to "theming" in general.
-The content slider is very easy to use.
-Viglink integration - that was a nice touch. Easy to turn on or off for guests or registered
I'm not really sure who SHOULD buy vb5? Maybe the vbcloud for some people?
And the main reason I bought vb5 (the mobile suite that doesn't work) I still don't have. But at least now tapatalk supports my forum properly since it has a higher market share.
Respectfully out. Sorry for the staff stuck in the middle of IB management and consumers stuck on this product. Thanks for all your attempts in the face of this disaster.
I switched to lets say, Brand X (
) and things are just amazing when they work without excuses and headache.In one half day I went from broken, laggy, slow software to a forum that my users are actually excited about.
- dev support and add-ons
- speed, my god finally no hanging for no reason.
- proper AJAX page refreshes so things show up the way they are supposed to when they are supposed to
- speed!! you just can't believe how slow things you feel until your move off of it
- better mobile experience. ALL of my responsive design works!
- reputation that makes sense
- real time alerts
I've spent upwards of 20 hours a week every week for the last 2 months having to reinvent the wheel. Can't figure out, get pointed to the 2 year old JIRA, hunt google for a workaround, do it again.
So what does vb5 do well?
-Basic Theming.- site builder and the stylevar are pretty good and really let you customize every detail of the stock style. But there is almost no aftermarket support so I won't expand this to "theming" in general.
-The content slider is very easy to use.
-Viglink integration - that was a nice touch. Easy to turn on or off for guests or registered
I'm not really sure who SHOULD buy vb5? Maybe the vbcloud for some people?
And the main reason I bought vb5 (the mobile suite that doesn't work) I still don't have. But at least now tapatalk supports my forum properly since it has a higher market share.
Respectfully out. Sorry for the staff stuck in the middle of IB management and consumers stuck on this product. Thanks for all your attempts in the face of this disaster.
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