not bad freddie, not bad, actually really wanna get a chance to skin it now ^_^

Wow 40 Steps to Upgrade From vB 2 to vB3!

Ill upgrade as soon as I see the announcement. :)

we all would be dead my then :p

i had my hopes up for too long, what a year and a half already? personally to this point i no longer care if vb3 ever comes out. i will stay with 2.3.0,.

The devs aren't stuipid, the longer they wait the more people will keep renewing ... but i am not gonna be fooled another renewal :mad:

Actually, I have to respectfully disagree. The devs know that the longer they wait, the more customers get disgruntled, and leave. They are waiting because they are sorting out bugs and do not want to release buggy software (unlike Microsoft, who will release anything to please people ;) ).

.. but at least MS could make an OS which runs on millions of computers in a faster time then it takes to put code into a file :p

MS have made two operating systems, in that time and vb3 still not out :confused:

Yes i will for sure.

For me, it's too early to tell. Most likely, I'll upgrade 3 months or so after the initial release; one reason is to give time for the hacks to be made compatible with vB 3.0 (by their respective authors)

Cant answer until it's been on my test site for a while.

Stupid question here, but I like stupid questions

are we talking weeks, months or years for the elusive vB3 ??

another question!
did the developers make announcements about vB3 release, or have they been quiet and it's just us lot jumping the gun and hoping to get it released as quick as possible ? :cool:

hmm :rolleyes:

Just a shot in the dark here, but I'm not expecting vB3.0 before late June 2003 or probably even later, something around mid July 2003. And that's only the Beta Release.
Maybe by the end of the year of 2003 we'll see vB3.x hitting stable/final status.
Just wait and see what happens.....

i hope its out earlier than that (public beta) but it probably wont :(
im waiting for vb3 to design my board so i dont have to redesign it a few months later.
*sigh*

nope, Im going to keep version2 because it has so many hacks that I use... I will ofcourse upgrade when I see the hacks I need come into production for vb3... I will just run a test board most likley to get used to the template system and see how things work

i agree i will stick with 2.2.9 untill most of the hacks that are for 2.2.X find there way to 2.3.X :)

just my opinion and i do think there are some gr8 features to 2.3.0 but it dont hurt to wait and my site is running fine with vb2 :)

Don't think so! :)

We're not talking about 2.2.* vs 2.3.*, we're talking about 2.* vs 3.*

So when if ever will VB3.0 be released???

I'll probably take a few days to accommodate to it once it's released and then start converting my current board to it. I've got a ton of home-made hacks i will need to adapt to vb3, but i think it will be a fun proccess. And then again, i will probably have one of the most hacked vbulletin3s!

hmm i want to upgrade but i wont be able to until a few hacks for vb3 are done
for my site the top ten threads, arcade hack and journal are vital

I will on my local host test board to see how it is. But i wont upgrade my online board untill me and the and the other admin agree on it and untill i get used to the way its changed from 2.x

You really think so? What else do you know about V3?

I'm sure the hacks will flow in quickly after vB3's release. :)

Lord, you really think they'le have a journal?
They doen't even have an embeded chat ...

Not sure at this stage :dunno:

Will definitely download and have a play with it :) We have a number of hacks on our board, and l want be the person converting them so probably not my decision anyway.

Anyone know if the quick reply box at vBulletin.com for vers 3 is in the actual final release candidate (or whatever they call it). Not too sure about that one, and prefer the hack some one made for quick replies.

Looks nice and feature rich though, a speed increase is gotta be an advantage :)

A site with a whole category dedicated to Hedgehogs :lol: Gotta love that, and nope not being cynical about it. Just goes to show every subject is covered by some one. Have passed the url onto some folks in k1w1 land that are into them :)

Yep and i want to do the first GFX modification on it lol

I downloaded the beta 5 and think it's great. I don't use hacks but I do use one add on and that's the login on a non-vb page. The people here and at vbulletin.com have always been great with helping out. I commend you on your service...

Now what I don't understand is the position you are taking on not releasing hacks and add on's for vb3. Hacking a beta version is truely a bad idea. That I'll go with. On the other hand, add on's such as a non-vb page login, really has nothing to do with code modifications. Vbulletin.com even confirmed that no additional changes will be made to the login code of vb3. The whole point of releasing a beta version is to test it out and report bugs and such or was is just to stop us from asking about it? VB3 is great and I'll be the first to admit it. I'd even like to move it from my test board to my public board and actually see how it does. But without some sort of global permissions for my non vb pages I just can't do it. If I took down all of my non vb pages and had just the vb3 forums the members would find somewhere else to go.

In short, if they are gonna release a beta, then lets test it. If they are gonna release a demo, which is all I really have now, then lets call it that and be done with it.

Hacking late beta useally arn't to bad. Beta 5 and 6 are bug fixing and the new WYSWYG Editor.

I agree, as long as people who have hacked there vB don't start reporting "bugs" due to them hacking it. I've hacked my Beta 5 loads ;)

Exactly! Releasing a few minor hacks that would allow people to actually use VB3 wouldn't hurt anything. Nobody runs just a bulletin board anymore. If they would include a front end in vbulletin we wouldn't even be having this discussion. To have that god awful forums homepage as your websites home page is almost embarrassing.

Well.. I'm playing with the latest beta version on my pc at the moment lol but I don't think I'll upgrade to it straight away when it does finally come out.. will probably give it a month or so first ... in the hopes of seeing some V3 hacks from you guys ;)

No, because I dont feel like re-insalling the store, waiting for the arcade to come out, etc etc. Unless there will be a 10 minute way to install the store for vb3 and all those other complex hacks I spent hours and hours on, I will not be upgrading.

WID

I love 3, Although I miss the hacks, I have ported some over, and also did some add ons.

Vb3 just has so much more options and better coding. The store I have done (just not implimented yet due to nature of my board)

Arcade would be very simple since it is mainly just an add on not a hack.

Meh, your loss.

vB3 over vB2 = PIV 3300MHZ With Hyper Threading Over PIII 1000MHZ.

wow, major thread bumpage here people. Well, as soon as beta3 came out I upgraded, then to beta4 and now 5...hehe

well for vb3 i hope the hack coding standart will be better.
i've started to port over hacks for vb.org already and must say, if you work on yourself a bit, most of the hacks become more easy to install, so to answer madcats post, 10 minutes for store hack is maybe to less, but if it would be ported over in a nice way i think it won't take that long as it took for vb2

Yeah I have to agree that vB3 is *much* easier to hack, I really like usergroup.php, user.php, forum.php in the ACP.

I like the admin layout, how all the tables are done by functions :)

Just like vB2 you mean ;) :p

o_O Did not know that, Wasn't really into vB2 admin at all.

im gonna, already running it as my main software...