Ive found 1 that can be pretty annoying.

But its still the principle, vB3 BETA3 should be tested locally rather than publicly, IMO anyway.

You're forgetting one incredibly important thing: security. As 3.0.0 will be an "initial release", tons of people will upgrade to it. That means many new bugs will be discovered, and it only takes one tiny XSS check missing to completely obliterate your board.

I relize that, witch is why I added this line:

if you are willing to deal with that and stay up to date with the beta's and RC's then there is no reason not to use it.

Running a beta, or a final that just has come out of beta will always be a risk. But, you know as well as I do that no software is turely bug free, and many 'tiny' XSS checks where missed in vB 2, even up to the point when 2.3.0 was released.

I agree, I don't know if a beta is really suitable for public viewing because there can be alot of user-assessable bugs. Can cause problems..

I run it from the private beta and up, and it has been stable since the first time I upgraded. I was suprised I didn't run in to any big problems.

It is so worth upgrading to any beta release. If you want to wait for the gold, don't ! Get the RC1 as soon as it gets out. I am sure it is near perfection.

Aside from the security holes, glitches, errors, and mistakes... :rolleyes:

But I would have to agree with the general concensus. A beta is well worth upgrading to if you have the time to take care of it. I, for one, won't have time until the middle of next month, so... That's when I'm gonna learn how to operate vB3 properly. :D

I can honestly say, I don't think there has been ANY security holes found, rather, just minor file errors. The betas are safe to use at this point and I would see no reason not to upgrade at the beta 4 point.

Judging from vBulletin.com, some people make the small glitches and bugs into a really big deal. Depends on how you treat small bugs...

Acully, if they havent already, I would say wait til beta 5 gets released to update the live boards.

I looked myself out of my beta 4 admin cp cause I left some flawed php code in the phpinclude template and let my session expire. Had to comment out the whole block for phpinclude in the global.php file before I could re-login ;).

Hearing all these rumours that Beta 5 is soon, maybe another 2 weeks between the beta again? :p