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Originally Posted by Princeton

upgrading just for the sake of upgrading?!?

The top 2 reasons to upgrade are....
1__ security
2__ new features

security - we are always on top of security patches, etc

For how much longer? Read this:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...-X-End-of-Life

Officially... you have until vBulletin 4.0 to upgrade, before vBulletin 3.6 reaches end of life. Once that happens, this site is a sitting duck security wise if anyone bad gets found in that version. Because after vBulletin 4's release...

We will continue to release any security patches as needed until vBulletin 4.0 is released. At that time all support for 3.6.X will cease.

Yeah... I'd say you've got about until december/january to use 3.6 with any calmness of mind left.

Plus... again, leaves a bad impression using outdated software for an official site. vBulletin.org is an official site. People on various forums mention this. It's like a company employee using an outdated version, or a Microsoft group using Windows 98, if they don't use their own latest versions of software, why should the consumer?

new features - up to this point there's nothing screaming at us; not saying that we don't want changes just saying that what is out there is not necessarily what is needed at this moment


Should we upgrade? NO, IT'S NOT NECESSARY
Can we do it? YES
Do we want to upgrade to vBulletin 4? MOST DEFINITELY


Please answer the following...

Do we have to upgrade our software for you to enjoy the addons, the articles, and/or the thousands of posts on vbulletin.org?

Are you having difficulties navigating the site?

Frankly, people have been wanting this kind of thing for months, so to be brutally honest... yes, you do have to upgrade for me to enjoy the addons, articles and thousands of posts. To be perfectly honest, it is a pain to browse this site. The search frankly isn't very good, and finding a modification I wanted for ages is nigh impossible unless it's a particularly well known modification. Take the inactive user email reminders. I looked for a particular version, couldn't find it. Found a lot of irrelevant results first, then the two versions I didn't want to use because they were outdated, and I only got the one I remembered when I asked for it on AdminAddict.

For once, just stop ignoring everyone's suggestions. Frankly, I'm starting to think there should have been more Jelsoft staff than poor Marco running this place.