[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by Zachariah

My vb3.03 had about 70-90 hacks.

100's of file template edits.
1 style / skin

- I do not have paying members to deal with so it was easy.
- add gas and light it on fire.

It would take me 2 weeks to a month per update. Most of the time I thought "whats the point" on many hacks and they did not transfer.

My last update w/ 30 - 40 hacks vb3.5x
- 10 min w/o loss.
- 7 template edits
- 4 file edits

Template compare tool (drool) is a "god send"
plugin / hooks (low file / template edits) is a "god send"
XML installer files are easy as pie to DEV on and change stuff before install.
Hack updates ? - run the new XML file 95% of the time.

I do not know your issues Mark, but it's like the diff of night and day to me.

I'd love to run the XML file on hack updates, but most of mine haven't been updated - quickquote and 'proper' smilies in QR box (as opposed to a dropdown box) being prime examples.

My main issue is this - what benefits have your members seen from your upgrade.....because I cannot see any benefits, all I can see is people trying to justify loss of features after upgrading, that's no good to me. If I upgrade something it's to make it better, not worse. vB3 was a significant improvement, feature wise, over vB2. vB3.5 offers fat zero in end user improvements over 3.0.