Why vB team didn't continue developing vb 4x?

[KGodel]

I've made this point in other threads too, but vB4 was no gem when it was released. It took awhile for it to be a good piece of software, and for a long time people stayed with vB3, and as others have pointed out, even vB2. Some communities aren't always looking to add new things, so the perceived lack of mod maintenance isn't really an issue (others have pointed out there are always solutions).

While we may wish that IB had learned from the past, this seems to be a trend with all software these days (not just forum software) that a product is released far under expectations and slowly gets to where it needs to be. With vB5 being developed for the latest version of php, to take advantage of all it offers is a good thing, but it is lacking some things most of us consider a necessity to use. All we can do is continue to help each other on legacy version of the software and hope that IB will get vB5 to a place it needs to be. As long as there are those of us who stick it out, hopefully we will be rewarded, but our future is not at stake here. Our boards are fine and will continue to be fine. The only ones who have anything on the line are IB. If they fail to deliver on what will keep people invested in then a larger share will go to other software.