Here's The Real Reason vBSEO Abandoned Ship

[brihan]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I don't believe it matters the order. I personally would remove VBSEO first though, I think that is more important.

Thank you!

I appreciate all of the replies.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

Yes, immediately.

*Please note: It would be best to prepare yourself and your forum ahead of time, by that I mean;

You need to do one of the following:

*** Backup database and files before doing this, you make a mistake only so many ways to reverse things w/o a backup ***

1) Uninstall VBSEO / Remove all files. THEN setup vBulletin to use mod rewrite friendly URL's by including the .htaccess file from the 4.2.2.zip file. If setup correctly your urls are now mod rewrite friendly and appear close if not similar to how they did before, not identical but best they can be since vbseo was removed.

OR

2) Uninstall VBSEO (read DB Tech install instructions/documentation as you may need to disable vbseo first since you want to import data into DBSEO then uninstall vbseo after importing into dbseo etc etc) and install DBSEO by DBTech (Google it) as its the new alternative to VBSEO.

Most of us experienced in these matters go with option one, the rest option two i.e. purchase dbseo then they import and feel safe that they now have something close to what was there prior.

Can we not just apply the patch? If so where do we get it?

[BirdOPrey5]

What patch?

[mykkal]

i wanted to make sure the exploits we corrected included the infamous one. its been tested anyways. nevermind

[final kaoss]

You can modify and fix it all you like but since you do not own the source code, you cannot legally make public and share any fixes unless you become the new owner of vbseo & vbseo.com

Besides, it's now a far inferior product compared to the strides that dbseo has been making regardless.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by final kaoss

Besides, it's now a far inferior product compared to the strides that dbseo has been making regardless.

We'll have to disagree there, DBSEO doesn't support minification of addon scripts and custom css which google pagespeed places a high importance on. It also doesn't really optimize mobile scripts which are highly important now that google has updated for mobile. Lastly, for whatever reason it won't work with VBET translator. It almost seems like the owner of VBET and DBSEO have some type of disagreement going. <--- That was actually the deciding factor because the geotargeted translations actually increased our traffic by 89%.

There's other things too like rich snippets and etc. For now VBSEO is something we've decided to patch. The owner at Dragon Byte didn't seem open to any of our suggestions/needs for future development and we needed a comprehensive solution for this version.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by mykkal

Can we not just apply the patch? If so where do we get it?

See below.

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

What patch?

I thank you sir for pointing this out!

Originally Posted by mykkal

i wanted to make sure the exploits we corrected included the infamous one. its been tested anyways. nevermind

Again, see below.

Originally Posted by final kaoss

You can modify and fix it all you like but since you do not own the source code, you cannot legally make public and share any fixes unless you become the new owner of vbseo & vbseo.com

Besides, it's now a far inferior product compared to the strides that dbseo has been making regardless.

Its not inferior, its similar and outdated but I'm going to hit you all with one more see below lol.

Originally Posted by mykkal

We'll have to disagree there, DBSEO doesn't support minification of addon scripts and custom css which google pagespeed places a high importance on. It also doesn't really optimize mobile scripts which are highly important now that google has updated for mobile. Lastly, for whatever reason it won't work with VBET translator. It almost seems like the owner of VBET and DBSEO have some type of disagreement going. <--- That was actually the deciding factor because the geotargeted translations actually increased our traffic by 89%.

There's other things too like rich snippets and etc. For now VBSEO is something we've decided to patch. The owner at Dragon Byte didn't seem open to any of our suggestions/needs for future development and we needed a comprehensive solution for this version.

Ok I need to clarify something, so its understood from here on out:

vBSEO is dead, it cannot be "patched" as there is no ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT TEAM BEING PAID TO WORK ON IT, this does not exist. I don't know who the heck you guys and gals keep getting to "patch" your versions of vBSEO but believing that someone can upkeep a security prone and outdated software is a stretch of the imagination and assuming you're safe and secure on your now "patched" version of vBSEO makes me cringe quite honestly... I'm afraid for you even if you're not afraid yourself, follow the logic now?

Now, can they point out current issues and exploits in your installed version? Sure, anyone could do that and call it a "patch" if they review the code but since I'm not on the now dead vbseo development team, I'm not being paid to do so then why trust someone who happened to see a few issues and charged you for patching... no dev team exist and one person is not a team, mentioning DBSEO - they have a team. This is not "find a nulled version online and use hahahahaha we win" type of situation nor is it "we payed for it, they went out of business its our right to use it" sure its your right however wouldn't it serve as a reminder of some sorts to all of you that, you're attempting to continue using a product that does not receive security updates? Furthermore that company WOW they left a exploit in the software for over a year what else did they miss? What pro can PATCH your vBSEO? NO ONE, not one and if you have one confident enough to charge you have them post here exactly what was done so others can point out what they missed.

I'm sorry, I know that sounded a little off the wall and like I was riled up, I was - I fear for many of you who simply justify how/why its ok to keep using it. *cries inside*

[Elixar]

Michael, you're overeacting, vBSEO wouldn't endanger my....

*YOUR SITE HAS BEEN HACKED*

You were right all along, it's hard for us to admit it.

lol @ the logic of people.