I agree with the direction they are taking vB5 - it is time for vBulletin to evolve.
The problem I have is that it looks like no planning went into the demo launch. It's a complete mess! On top of that, the project is incomplete.
They need to transition customers and users slowly off of what we are use to (what a forum is today). The demo could have easily been changed to look and act more like the 'forums' we know today. For example, upon your first visit you should feel familiar to the UI. (The demo has now been updated with additional forums but it still feels foreign because of all the white-space.)
The last thing IB wants to do is push people away. By nature, human beings do not like change.
On top of that, it's slow as H-E-L-L and full of BUGS.
If they wanted to impress us they went horribly wrong.
It's far from ready.
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