I love Vbulletin 4 allready do you ?

[Mopar1973Man]

Well as for me...

I installed a copy on the server to preview the VB4 and was quite shock to find the AdminCP basically the same as the VB 3.84. The only thing that seemed to change is the theme of the web page (public)

As for change in functions, controls and other wise I really didn't see it. Maybe for the public side but to the adminstrator it seem the same. Basically my 3.84 is setup exactly like the 4.0 just without the bugs.

I'm sitting on the fence and waiting for the full release of VB4 (gold) and most likey go forward.

[MarcInJapan]

Currently until they get the bugs worked out of it and the hacks/add ons, I don't care for it. I have 3 car sites and we installed in on one of the smaller ones. Its a basic forum site without all the bells and whistles. I am hoping the new and improved version is much better. I can't adjust avatars, some forum colors, the advertisers banners don't work properly, I can't get my banner to center correctly on the top of the page, and the list goes on...

[kall]

Originally Posted by Mopar1973Man

I installed a copy on the server to preview the VB4 and was quite shock to find the AdminCP basically the same as the VB 3.84.

This would be due to the fact that it was never slated to be any different for 4.0.

It is supposed to be revamped for 4.1.

[Vaupell]

Im personally quite happy with the Admin CP as it is..

[Brandon_R]

vB 4 is impressive, im just waiting for it to go gold.

[Brandon Sheley]

I don't care for the thread preview in the search results, but I'm sure there is an easy way to remove that.

[Zaiaku]

I tried running vb4 suite for just a few days:
the cms for it is terrible IMHO. vbadvance wasn't the greatest but way better then this. It actually encourage me just to make my own.
Blogs? Never wanted this, never like this, it just simply takes away from the forum.

Just I decided to install just the forum:
Honestly I love the design about it but the Stylevars makes cusomizing slow. Most vb4 sites are going to look the exact same exept for colors for a long time.
No mod needed to easy video posting. Great!
What's the point of a profile pic now? Atleast there's albums still.
Easiest add placement! 1 less mod needed.

I 'm in the process of making a new site and decided to wait it out until vb4 goes gold and all the mods come out for it, but its just takin forever for it to happen. Also I'm really not seeing any advantages for vb4 over vb3.x so far.

Has anyone really been able to see some clear advantages for funtionality that vb4 has over vb3? Please let me know!!!

[chris1979]

I think the communication from vBulletin has been very poor. Why don't they keep in touch with their customers and let people know what's happening?

I prepaid (like many people) and I've heard nothing since, except when I've come searching for info - and even then it's hard to find anything out and really vague when you do find something. I understand it's just a beta version but come on vBulletin. We're not all geeks here. Speak to us like paying customers - explain to us what's going on, how long is it likely to take, what's the next stage, etc.? When am I actually going to get what I paid for?

You're coming across as a company that doesn't care about its customers.

[alex902602]

I think the style is disgusting and it really should be redone, It's screwed in IE and it's also messy.

[yamahapaul]

Originally Posted by Rat1972

Hate it. For me its a SMF ripoff. I look also around on the official vbulletin website. It looks ugly and i know for sure, when i am going to upgrade, i will lose a lot of members. Thats why i staying for a long time with 3.8.x. This board gives you a real vbulletin feeling, looks good. But the new one. Brrrrr. Maybe it will be better in the future, but there is a lot of work to do with it before i will upgrade my forum.

To me this sums up my views. While I appreciate that IBs intentions were good, I think that they have fundamentally changed what set VB apart from the competition, ie, the professional look

Originally Posted by Delilahs

I and my users are very happy with it so far, even in it's beta state as now the blog and cms are truly integrated which is the main reason why I bought 4.0 in the first place.

These are the only aspects that appeal to me and I personally think that if anyone comes up with a way to use the VB CMS with any of the other pre VB 4.0 versions (or clone one from scratch) they could potentially have a real winner on their hands

Just my opinion and I'm sure we all have one