[GSeybold]

thank you all for your info.

I do like Vb of course but 4.0 looks crappy to me. Perhaps I'm too much of a traditionalist maybe? I don't know.

My forum is growing rapidly and I have to be with a company and software that I know is stable and that I won't have to spend hundreds of dollars fixing it when I don't like the recent upgrades as in 4.0.

So what else can I do? I absolutely hate making any changes because I have great VB tech support but it's costly.

And this is probably me but it seems like this forum is having problems as will as the traffic seems much slower than normal. None of my business of course, but it is worrisome. It's like when I knew K-mart was having problems cause there was less and less items on the shelves.

I just want to put up my forum and forget about the tech issues and upgrading. I don't want to have to keep wondering when the next security patch is coming out or upgrade two months after I've just upgraded.

So now I have to go through the whole process of finding reliable tech support and host for new forum software? Just great.

I guess I can run 3.0 until my host decides the aren't going to support this series anymore?

I'm all for growth and change but I don't think this new design is at all good or intuitive.

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Hi Paul,
I'm sorry I do not own my license so what willl happen when 4.0 comes out? I"m sorry I'm such a tech knob and don't know this stuff. Also what does "afaik" mean? Is this a tech term or typo? So are you saying that if I don't upgrade I'm eventually going to be out in the dark as far as tech support from VB themselves?

Originally Posted by Paul M

If you have an owned licence then afaik, you can continue to use it for as long as you want. There are people still running vb3.0 and even vb2. They only thing is that they are no longer supported (security patches etc), and eventually none of the 3.x series will be supported.