Why 3.x forums have 5 times more visitors

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We love vB3 and have no plans to upgrade to vB4. In our users opinions, there was nothing our users wanted in vB4 that was not already well done in vB3.

In addition, we really don't like the "me too" look of vB4, and thought the original vB3 development line was more "pure" to our goals as forum.

Also, we have many custom plugins we like; and since there are no "great new features we want" from vB4, it is a waste of resource to upgrade our custom code.

Could go "on and on"; but we are happy with vB3 and even if IB stops supporting it completely, we will keep running it; as we have not seen anything out of the new development lines that are in our forum and users best interest. They don't want blogs and don't want to be on a copycat FB site, etc; our users want a solid forum and that is what we give them and continually try to improve upon.

We tried the new vB Mobile Suite and were very disappointed in the bugs and the very bad service from IB. We don't even use Mobile Suite although we paid for it (full price) and IB never even suggested a refund. Sad and bad customer support, really.

Call me old fashioned or nostalgic, but we liked the original Jelsoft vB development team, now long gone from vB. The "new kids" seem to want to "beat us up" on every issue, as if any customer issue becomes personal and their mode of operation is to attack the customer.

Naturally, customer service is important; and since we have very bad experiences with the "new kids"; we are perfectly happy to run and update our vB3 software which we paid for and works great for us. There is no reason for us to support a business which has turned a blind eye to our issues and has embarked on a development line which does not really improve the core forum concept; but instead tries to copy cat social media trends.

vB3 is great! Love live vB3!

Jelsoft, we miss you!

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Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I can confirm that, our stats show 5 times more people actively using and improving their forums on v4 than on v3 based on our mods available for both.

The take up rate and sales figures for the mods show roughly 80% of sales are the vb4 versions - sample size of several hundred over all of the products.

Iain

That is "more than likely" because new users without vB3 experience will certainly buy vB4 instead of vB3.

More experienced forum admins will "more than likely" write more custom code and plugins.

In other words, these types of statistics showing screenshots of "who is looking in vB4 vs. vB3 forums" are misleading and mostly useless.

We run vB3 because we like it and we don't hang out in the "plugin forums" on this site because we can easily write our own mods that we need.

.. just trying to keep it real.... sorry to be so direct in my reply on this topic.

vB3 is great. Hands down.