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#11
10-23-2009, 08:06 PM
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Honestly the only thing that stops me from changing to IBP is the fact, that this community and the available hacks here are great and not reached by any other products. Joerg |
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#12
10-23-2009, 08:08 PM
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I have a feeling they're going to rush to vB5 like Microsoft went to Windows 7...
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#13
10-23-2009, 08:30 PM
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Are we really giving it a fair shot folks? It's almost like they are damned if they do and damned if they don't. They were under a lot of pressure to get this out for a preview, granted they were asking us to pay blindly for a future update but they did give us what we were asking for and got the beta online in pretty short order all considering.
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#14
10-23-2009, 08:55 PM
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Wait... two days upgrading is short order?
But seriously, I never got all the hatred of most of the vBulletin 4 style. Sure, some of the buttons are pretty boring and the smilies need massive changes, but it's not quite the trainwreck some people seem to be making it out to be. At least unlike some of Kier's style they changed all the images. |
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#15
10-23-2009, 08:58 PM
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Eric, I agree to an extent. I'm glad they listen to their customers and decided to put it up. However, it seems like they were not ready, and this was very rushed. Come on.... 24-36 hours downtime and an hour of instability and tons of errors is completely unacceptable. If I was relaunching a site and did that, I'd lose the contract and probably the client.... and yes, I have had to work with sites larger and busier than vBulletin.com, so that's not the issue here. They did not thoroughly test the site enough on their own environment. Sure, it's not the product's fault, but it's still very alarming because it's the same team.
The new style looks more like phpBB. I'm re-iterating a post of mine on vBulletin.com a little, and I apologize. There's not enough contrast... not enough attention drawn to key areas, and the new icons are terrible. It looks very amateurish, and I don't want to admit that because I'm a huge vBulletin fan. I think the new style is a major step back visually. I'm excited to be able to modify it easier, though... so it's a bitter sweet moment. I was really looking forward to the screenshots from Kier because they captured the visual aspects of vBulletin 3 that I really liked, and also improved them to be more modern. Honestly, I think if this was a random style released on vBulletin.org it wouldn't get much attention... I've seen better free ones. |
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#16
10-23-2009, 09:22 PM
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Yeah, the immature side of me only wants to post, "lol @ vb4", but the paying customer side of me wants to express how disappointing this is.
What's new? Tableless markup? Bravo, you're about six years too late, and the markup isn't anything to be excited about anyways. Two divs wrapping a ul just to display a bread crumb? Divs wrapping around heading tags? This excessive and unnecessary work is amateur at best. Creating a tableless layout is FAR more than just replacing your table tags with divs and spans, which it pretty much looks like is what happened. Who uses <hr />'s anymore? Seriously? Okay, so that's me being picky, right? I guess.. I know one things for sure, it ticks me off that I've spend hundreds of dollars towards vBulletin when I've been much happier with other solutions that are : drumroll : open source. Doesn't that seem a bit backwards to you? The design? It's awful. Terrible use of whitespace, terrible use of contrast, and SOOO many pointless features are being displayed. TONS of clutter.. You really need to see all of your "Posting Rules" on every bloody page? Didn't you learn ANYTHING from the 3.X series? There's absolutely nothing that's innovative. This design looks exactly like every other message board does and has for YEARS.. They should have hired a professional design firm, and they should have created a "Skin" that changes the way forums work / look for years to come. Instead, they provided us with the same shit, different platform. What a joke for a commercial product. Maybe there will be some tiny hope for vB5, but the way this has gone.. I'm skeptical. I don't think I've ever seen this many people upset with the status of vBulletin. What a sad day... --------------- Added [DATE]1256336865[/DATE] at [TIME]1256336865[/TIME] --------------- Quote:
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#17
10-23-2009, 09:29 PM
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personality i don't like it.the skin color is to bright for me. i had to add some contrast on my monitor so it wont hurt my eye's....The functions seem to be ok but nothing new to me.I couldn't get in to project tools and the blog.. I get that site unavailable page.
But people wanted to see so bad,so go see it now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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#19
10-23-2009, 11:01 PM
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Every time I change the theme on my site I always have to hear about it from my members, it's nice to see I'm not the only one.
 It appears that they are going for a web 2.0 look, whatever really quantifies that is anyone's guess, but it could use a darker font. |
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