[newbie2007]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

I've stuck with 4.2.2 and I tell my clients to do the same. My main concern is the loss of mods and the amount of work involved customizing things. I am not familiar with it enough to know of many bugs or problems but I have also read many negative reviews.

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You upgraded and lost your data in the process? This does not sound like a common issue or at least it is not one I have heard before from just running an upgrade.

As for starting a new forum it is not surprising that you would lose traffic, etc. The hardest part is getting started but I doubt this had anything to do with what version of Vbulletin you were using.

The data isnt "lost" I still have the mySQL database, but for some reason I couldnt connect vb5 to that database, and I went through a few different issues with vB support, eventually I decided to start a new database.

When vb5 was installed I sent out an email to every member that was registered on the forum, and although the regulars signed up, they didnt want to post. Forum was pretty much dead for a couple of months. I then decided to downgrade to 4.2.2 and fresh install again, sent out another email, and have have more registrations and posts on the forum.