[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Videx

Well, of course vb4 will be "in development" until vb5 is released. But the important thing to remember is that any work you do in vb3 is basically wasted now, because it is no longer in development.

Most people that have taken the time have found vb4 to be quite nice. Yes, there are bugs, but they're being addressed in a timely fashion.

I'm not slagging vB4 - it will eventually be a decent product. I'm merely stating the obvious: The developers boxed themselves into a corner with the time-limited price incentives for upgrading to the suite. Given that customers had only a limited time ro respond to the offer before it disappeared combined with the fact that those customers were essentially buying the promise of a product rather than one they could actually "touch and feel", vBulletin needed to release something before the end of 2009. The problem is that they really weren't ready to release it and to call 4.0 or even 4.01 a "Gold" release is an insult.

One consequence is that we are now in the position of creating our own work-arounds for bugs in 4.00 or 4.01 that may disappear or morph into an entirely different bug by 4.02 or 4.03.