What are you guys going to do when VB 3.8.x Becomes unsupported?

[bxflow]

Well, since VB is already on 4 sooner or later VB 3.8.x will stop getting supported I believe,

What are you guys going to do when its not supported and its full of vulnerabilities?


Saying migrate to IPB is easy and doesn't sound bad but as you know the passwords don't transfer so you can lost MOST of your members!


Discuss.........

bxflow Reviewed by bxflow on 6th Sep 2010. What are you guys going to do when VB 3.8.x Becomes unsupported? Well, since VB is already on 4 sooner or later VB 3.8.x will stop getting supported I believe, What are you guys going to do when its not supported and its full of vulnerabilities? Saying migrate to IPB is easy and doesn't sound bad but as you know the passwords don't transfer so you can lost MOST of your members! Discuss......... Rating: 5

[play_avi]

throw it to trash and move on to new forum scripts

[CammyD]

Upgrade to vB4 most likely =/ it's horrible but vB ftw!! Maybe vB5 will be awesome.

[SuicidalMedia]

vBulletin 3.8.x version WON'T get unsupported, just like the phpBB 2.x.x , both of them are very good forum scripts. And they got no bigger vulnerabilities, even though, Jelsoft decides to trash vB 3.8.x , there are lots of ex vBulletin workers, who would continue releasing updates.

[bxflow]

I thought phpbb didn't offer anymore support to phpbb2 unless theres some 3rd party sites

[SuicidalMedia]

I thought phpbb didn't offer anymore support to phpbb2 unless theres some 3rd party sites

No,
It's not official support, there is a forum dedicated to phpBB2. It's made by ex phpBB2 coders.

[nanuaman]

Upgrade to vB4 ..in my opinion

[Mr Happy]

I have to disagree with Jason. You really need official support to make a script worth while. Sure their will be some unofficial support for a while but that will reduce and disappear with time. As new products appear you'll be forced to update or change. Take something like HTML 5 or CSS3 that Youtube uses.
As more browsers support these fully you'd be crazy not to use them therefore you'll have to upgrade. Same thing goes for plugins like Facebook, twitter or even link checkers. As they become available and their's nothing for vb3 you'll be left struggling.

I know this from experience as one site I used to work on a lot is still using IPB 2.3.6 and it's a disaster to get any mods or support and it's dying a slow and painful death.

[l0calh0st]

They won't unsupport 3.8 easily since lot's of forums use it

[AbaDe]

vb4.1 is being released with superb features as fab and sophie says , with refined stylevars and database structure is refactored , so vb4.1 will be a hit as what it seems.

and when vb4.1 will be released , vb3 will be officially unsupported