vBulletin.org Changes - Jan 2011.

[Paul M]

Now that vbulletin has moved onto version 4.1, there will be some minor changes to the release forums in January 2011. These changes affect the current 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 forums.

These versions are now very old, and unsupported by IB - they are also now rarely used by the vast majority of sites. New releases for these versions are extremely rare, and almost always just duplicates of 3.8 releases. Therefore its time to semi-retire them.

In practical terms, this means the following will happen.

The 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 forums will be combined into a single "Pre 3.8" forum. This will most likely be termed the 3.x forums. This is not an ideal name since it wont include 3.0 or 3.8, but it will suffice.

The above forums will be closed to new releases. All existing mods will remain open for both posting and download, they will simply not allow new threads.

The [new] combined forums will remain in the main modification and style areas, they will not be moving to the archive area.

[TruthElixirX]

Why don't you call them the "Pre 3.8 Forums" if 3.x forums is not ideal?

[Paul M]

Well thats a possibility (and slightly less inacurate) but as we have 2.x forums & 4.x forums, it seems logical to have 3.x forums. Swings and roundabouts as they say.

[Alfa1]

Or 3.5+ forums.

[vijayninel]

That should be fine .. but I hope that the Pre 3.8 forum will have sub forums like 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 or it will be difficult to search things out.

[jscieza]

Hi Paul,

Is the staff of vB.org discussing a migration from vB 3.6.12 to vB 4.1?

Thank you,
Jonathan

[v_siddhesh]

Why not just close new releases and not merge the forums? Instead they can be kept under a 3.x forums category as sub-forums. Easier to search this way

[eido]

just like microsoft is doing. they stopped supporting windows xp, and asking its customers to upgrade to windows 7. ur saying that 3.x versions is no more supported, and to upgrade to 4.x versions. nice marketing (business) move. to increase ur sales . well its ur right to do that. good luck anyways...

[RogerKirk]

Is there actually a need to merge the forum content? It mores sensible to put them under an umberella forum. Achieves the same effect of reducing the forum numbers at a higher level and combining the content in on area whilst still allowing for easy identification of where version a thread is for. Unless of course there is some other way to easily identify which version a thread is for.

[vijayninel]

Originally Posted by jscieza

Hi Paul,

Is the staff of vB.org discussing a migration from vB 3.6.12 to vB 4.1?

Thank you,
Jonathan

No, there is going to be no change in the vb.org forum software for now. Some of the older 3.x forums are going to be reorganised in Jan 2011.