vb3.8 or vb4 on a new forum?
 

I'm about to launch a new forum and don't know whether I should go with vb3.8 or vb4.0

What is your recommendation?

4.0 is still in beta, so I would suggest the 3.8 gold version
you can always upgrade later

three point eight

Thanks Brandon, and Floris.

4 isnt out yet... go with 3.8.

3.8 simple answer. upgrade to 4.0 when it becomes gold.

I personally would go to 4.0 so you have to skip the whole mod-and-skin-upgrade and get used to the new code. But thats just me =p

Not just you, that is what I would do if I were to start a new one. However, you must be willing to upgrade when a new beta comes out and retest your style and all functionality everytime. It's still very buggy, so you need to be willing to put up with that and also if you have problems, you need to be a bit of a debugger yourself instead of always needing someone else to figure out the problem for you.

If you dont plan to customise your forum, then go for 3.8.

If you plan to customise it then consider using the vb4 beta - you may save yourself pain upgrading later. Depends on how techy you are really.

The majority of the problems that we hear of 4.x are from 3.x users wanting more bells and whistles...You are just a baby, I would go with 4.x...