Always wondered why.....If it isn't broke "4.2" then why fix it? Now I am wondering why if you know it's already broke"VB5" why try to fix it? Unbelievable all the hype that went into the announcement about how happy they are to announce the release of vbulletin 5 connect and once I hit the demo......My goodness what a mess. All the best to those who actually go and buy their new license for vbulletin 5.......Overpriced and over hyped!!!

vBulletin 4 has more features than vBulletin 5, and you wont lose all your search engine rankings.

Unless the CMS is going to be postponed to vB6 due to unforeseeable circumstances. Mark my words. :)

I purchased VB5 but am not going to switch over until the CMS is implemented or something is created here to mimic it... I plan on copying my current database over to test site later this week and see how it looks...

its not that simple, you will need to run the upgrade script as it converts the tables and moved them around, you will also need to insure that all plugins are disabled within the database and well as products as they are not compatible with VB5

the only thing i done was copy forum structure and post threads names

Although I am ok with the look, I agree that most people are interested in performance and page load efficiency, which could be fixed with a 4.3 Update. I would pay for that even though we have a license for the 4.x Suite. IMHO they should have called this a VB5 Preview, not a beta. Get people to move to the Preview and then charge them for the GM - ala Microsoft.

It would be good in a nutshell to know the benefits of Vbulletin 5.

Can someone explain the benefits of upgrading. I know it's a beta version so putting that to one side what are the benefits of the product.

1) do not upgrade from vb4 - VB5 its still in beta and has bugs

a suggestion to install it in a folder like vb5demo
so you can test the features

They jumped the gun pretty quick on vB5, the best results is to have users try it out and report back.
It's sad to see the poor conversion rate on vB4 mods.

What ever vb5 will look like in some month - i won`t buy it since i will still remember, how IB took "care" of vb4 issues/customers. they did just lie, pushing big man power to vb5 - and vb4 isn`t even finished or completed.
try acting like that in a small company - and you will just go broke.

in vb4 release times they had some small bonus. but now things have changed.
1. other software made big steps
2. customers don`t trust IB anymore
3. releasing such a crap like beta 10 - are you f*cking serious?
4. customers payed for things in vb4 they never got - why should they trust in IB, that everything will change and be better?
5. IB is running too much into facebook things. at least my boards are not supposed to look or be like facebook. i purchased a messageboard and a board+cms suite - not some facebook-clone.
6. in performance meanings i`m sad from time to time, that i upgraded to vb4. i really want my vb 3 back sometimes. now, who will honestly tell me, vb5 will be faster, more performant as vb4 is right now?

i could go on. sad but true.

greets, Nik