Question about "Welcome to our newest member,"

[Frosti]

Here is the 'new user' shown (pic1) No account to 'moderate' (pic2)

user search for that name (pic3) and result, no account at all (pic4)

SO, lets see if it's GONE after the next cycle. Plus, I would love to know what usergroup this guy is suppose to be in right now?? he is in LIMBO cuz I also do not show anyone in any usergroup, but as you can see he is my 'newest member'.
Just saying (yes my board is young but I am about to jump start it and again would love to not have this headache)(My other site doesn't do this??)

UPDATE: I performed a 'cleanup' manually and the 'new member' was gone, however, that still doesn't cure why he was ever there, and still searching for some coding that doesn't even allow on to SHOW UP till legit member

[thetechgenius]

I agree. Some people don't upgrade to the latest vBulletin 4 release because people like me that have many addons, template edits/mods, and a very custom style, is way to risky to upgrade vB. There is a saying, if its not broken, don't fix it. If I have my forum exactly the way I want, and there are no issues or errors, why would I risk the upgrade and most likely break most of the custom addons, edits, and style. My entire site might even go down.

[cellarius]

That's what test-installations are for. And given the known security issues in all vB4 versions below v.2.2 this seems rather short-sighted in my opinion. If you are a skilled enough admin to take that risk or fix the security issues yourself, then fixing the problems that come with an upgrade should not cause you headaches. If they do, then are you really that comfortable with known security issues? Of course, its your choice, but surely its not a way I would widely recommend.

Especially since the upgrade we're talking here, from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2, will hardly break anything.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Originally Posted by cellarius

That's what test-installations are for. And given the known security issues in all vB4 versions below v.2.2 this seems rather short-sighted in my opinion. If you are a skilled enough admin to take that risk or fix the security issues yourself, then fixing the problems that come with an upgrade should not cause you headaches. If they do, then are you really that comfortable with known security issues? Of course, its your choice, but surely its not a way I would widely recommend.

Especially since the upgrade we're talking here, from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2, will hardly break anything.

Great points cellarius but that really is not the point and or reason that "thetechgenius" and others don't upgrade. Why doesn't vB offer updates to the older versions and simply charge and extra fee for those instead of saying "oh well those are unsupported versions"? Do car companies not support older versions of cars or electronic companies not support or fix older versions of their product just because they are older versions ? lol ...

I guarantee you that if Vb offered paid updates and patches for older versions they would get a great response from their customers as well as make money out of it because of it.

Anyways ... it's just an idea and something that we all know is not going to happen ...


Oh and these updates and patches could be tracked the same way as licenses are tracked so that you can't just give away these updates and patches to others .... does that make sense?

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by thetechgenius

I agree. Some people don't upgrade to the latest vBulletin 4 release because people like me that have many addons, template edits/mods, and a very custom style, is way to risky to upgrade vB. There is a saying, if its not broken, don't fix it. If I have my forum exactly the way I want, and there are no issues or errors, why would I risk the upgrade and most likely break most of the custom addons, edits, and style. My entire site might even go down.

All this AFTER, you take consideration for the membership and how any "upgrade" might negatively affect them. That alone to me, is the main thing to think about - the board is nothing without its membership.

[John Lester]

Where is there a list of all these known security issues?

[cellarius]

At vbulletin.com. The announcements forum. All that has not been fixed for your version is obviously still open.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Originally Posted by cellarius

At vbulletin.com. The announcements forum. All that has not been fixed for your version is obviously still open.

Yes they are there, but for those who don't know how to apply the fixes to the security issues it doesn't help them at all ... us that now how to apply those issues have no problem with it ... and finding someone "reliable" and "trustworthy" to help you with this for most is not an easy thing to do ...

[John Lester]

Originally Posted by cellarius

At vbulletin.com. The announcements forum. All that has not been fixed for your version is obviously still open.

Thanks Couldn't rep you so take this post instead