Policies are reviewed against real life situation all the time. And yes it was the post from an IB-employee that this time triggered a discussion on this topic. IB chooses to have a different policy on this then what (the old) Jelsoft wanted.

Wait VB4 has a complete new structure? In other words I can't continue to use my mods and my style? Thats poo :(

Thats how things work in real life. The same was true for the move from 3.0 to 3.5 and I suspect for 2.x to 3.0 before that.

You can use the forum for discussion and planning about potential mods for vB4 -or- mods for the current vB3.8 so... I don't see the problem?

2.0.x -> 2.2.x was also a big change. ;)

We upgraded from 3.6 to 3.7 and found nearly ZERO benefit. Our users don't care about the social groups, the blog add-on is lame, etc. 3.8 added nothing useful. I suspect 4.0 is the same.

The "killer app", if there one, is the forum.... all the follow on fluff is basically useless.

Plus, important features like "CDN-friendly" and other key topics are ignored for fluffy features that few users care about.

So, my suggestion is don't waste your time waiting for a future Jelsoft release, because the "new releases" have little value-added. We use 3.7 and it is great. 3.8 adds nada, and 4.0 adds nada again.

Sorry, but the development line has gone "stale" in my humble experience with nearly 3.5M PVs per month. They only way we can realize value is to code ourselves now. This is the fact.

I think you misunderstand what this thread is about.