Okay - just being a bit silly here. But I've always found this "no compelling reason to upgrade" company line a bit ridiculous.
It's like a Cadillac franchise owner -- who has been cruising around town in their 1979 De'Ville -- saying in November 2013 - "no compelling reason for you to buy the new 2014 Escalade." Meanwhile at homebase - you're getting slammed with 25% off The World's Dopest 2014 Ride Black Friday coupons.
So we potential customers are scratching our heads, thinking ==> Okay... If Cadillac is cool with their '79 De'Ville - I should be good in my '82 Se'Ville then right? No need for the newest Escalade.. Perhaps Cadillac should get out of the car business?!
IDK - horrible metaphor throughout LOL -- But it just seems silly to me. I want to scream - Come on IB - Pimp the dot_org out with your flagship, world's leading community software.
Just sayin...
J.
Though, if you look back, it was only one person who initially used the expression, and it kind of got latched on to. It probably was never the best way to put it, but suffice it to say, I can only imagine that if the site has been heavily modified to the point where it's functionally as stable and secure as any other version of vB, and without knowing the level of custom code integration (I mean, we could be talking about whole pages rewritten just for vB.org), then it probably really isn't worth the effort to rewrite an entire website. Then sit and wait for the bugs to be worked out, because it would be silly to think that a resigned on that level would be bug free. Then have to deal with all the outrage when any little thing goes wrong on this site. All for the purpose of having a different version number in the footer, and some different graphic design.
If it would fundamentally improve our experience, then I'd be all for it, too. But we're not a hobby board with a pack of third-party mods installed. We're an official board with God-knows what level of code modification that needs to remain stable for as long as possible. I've seen that type of advanced modification done to a board before, and they were vB 2 boards. Maybe not modern, or pretty, but every bit secure and functional. Boards modified on a level that they fundamentally weren't the same script anymore.
12-06-2013, 05:39 AM
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