vBulletin 3.8.0 Released

[Brian Layman]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

You can associate your vBulletin Customer account with your Google Adsense account or if you don't have an account, sign up for one from in the vBulletin Member's Area [..] Associating your vBulletin Customer Account with a Google Adsense account is not mandatory but just another service that we felt would be beneficial to our customers.

I can certainly see why this would be an advantageous feature & relationship for you. And I love the idea that you can sign up from this site and that Jelsoft gets a finders fee. However, you really should provide a local way to do this. In this day and age, not providing the option makes you reek of big brother and it seems strange that you wouldn't expect a backlash. This private information really has no business being in your databases/logs.

I'm not upset as I won't likely ever use the feature. However, so very rarely do you guys do something that wouldn't make me proud of your product, I thought it worthy of a reply.

[Jaxel]

The more I use 3.8.0... the more I think that the guys at Jelsoft are off their rocker...

1. The new pictures & album section is prone to users gaming the "update" system; as well as the valid updates only reading permissions from the primary usergroup, instead of the total permissions of a user (so if only secondary usergroups can upload images, then you will NEVER have updated albums)...

2. The new social groups section is constructed poorly. The code for this page is different from all other pages; I was having style incompatibilty problems with this page that I never had on any other pages.

3. Not to mention, there whole idea of a Category Cloud in the social groups is just assanine. Only certain groups should be put specific categories; because you may want to hold those categories as "prestigious". But you know what? With the cloud system, these prestigious categories are so small that you can barely even read them. Wouldn't you want the prestigious categories to STAND OUT?!

4. Let me also not forget that the social group discussions are BACKWARDS (just like the picture album comments).

5. Having to signup for google adsense on vbulletin.com BEFORE you upgrade. Now this is just stupid. I just upgraded, made all my edits... then I find out that it has Google Adsense support... but I need to upgrade again?!