vB4 State of Affairs?

[DJ RRebel]

I posted this last night on vB.com and see now that it has been deleted (without even a PM)! Originally I was also going to ask a part 2 to my question regarding if IB actually followed through with their promises of better communication and transparency .. but I see it's just as much in the crapper as ever it seems .. anyhow .. here's my original post that pertains more to the quality of the product itself .. your feedback (even if short and sweet) would be appreciated. Thanks!


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Just wondering what the opinion is of some of you long time members on what you feel about vB4?

Personally I was really frustrated with the way everything wasn't fully thought through when they added the social networking a couple of years ago. I stood up screaming at some of the obvious problems and sure enough most of the things I mentioned would be problems turned out to be problems (but at least 90% addressed from what I can tell as the problems were even more obvious in hindsight).

To say this left me rather frustrated was an understatement. I'm looking at starting a new site, but am seeing the same frustrating pattern as in the past. What really boggled my mind is that vB put a gold label on a product that clearly wasn't gold! From what I can tell from some of the discussions going on in various threads is that vB4 still isn't really a "gold" product.

I haven't installed or played/tested it yet .. So my question simply falls to some of you regular participants here who can give me an honest opinion .. Is vB 4.0.2 what you would consider Gold?

Meaning are there so many bugs, issues and things "they are working to improve" that each update is more of a major upgrade needing to revert 30+ templates among other things?

I see complaints of search not being very user friendly, as well as the asset manager being frustrating to new end users .. are these claims legit .. or are they just the usual complainers from those who complain about anything?

I did look around and ticker around here a couple of months ago when it went gold and was frustrated that as much as I like vB .. vB4 clearly did not merit the gold status it was given and was still Beta in my mind. I could spend a couple of days tinkering again .. but at this point I can't be bothered wasting the time and would like a simple paragraph or two from some of you summarizing your experience with vB4.0.2 and whether you feel it's a product worthy of Gold status and thus worthy of my time in developing a new site around it .. or do you feel it's not really "gold" and that I might be better off waiting a little longer for the product to stabilize a bit more?

Thanks