Abandon vBulletin 2?

[gothicuser]

Originally Posted by rabidkevin

this link speaks for itself...

http://www.google.com/search?hs=wPe&...22&btnG=Search

Winamp forums!

Bit of an eye-opener.. :surprised::surprised:

[FlyingDutchman]

Originally Posted by Quillz

iLounge.com uses 2.3.9, the latest stable version of vB 2.x, last time I checked.

lol there's a message saying the forums are closed because they are upgrading

haha, anyway vb2 is faster, has enough features (with a couple of simple/small hacks added probably) and I can see no reason why vb3 would be better than vb2. vb3.5 is probably another story because that is a real leap forward, but more features means less speed, generally. and i &*^#$(@# on AJAX!

[SaN-DeeP]

Voted yes for removing vbulletin 2 cause its way to old.
but if there are many boards still using Vb version 2.x it wont be avisable to remove them.

[DaPro]

Wow that v2 used to look like...I remember the styling and all the fun times! But lets move on, onto the future 3.x and 3.5.x. Actually forget 3.x, 3.5.x owns all.

[vBFreak]

I'm also using 3.5, but I would recommend to throw all the vb2 stuff to a vb2 hacking forum, so people using vb2 can still get support for their hacks (if the coder is still there) or share their changes/improvements and if someone still wants to do that he/she can also even release hacks yet. At least old threads should be kept open for users to discuss and help themself, so everyone should be able to reply to these hack threads.

I think since there are boards out with vb2 and vb2 is still supported, updated and fixed by Jelsoft it's time is not yet over, so it should be possible to release hacks or get support for them at least until vb2 is officially outdated by Jelsoft.

I still like vb2, even if I'm not using it anymore but I think even if we're using 3.X and newer we should give vb2 users a chance, so I've voted for no.

[Toky0]

I personally think so long as Jelsoft supports vB2 then vb.org should too. Don't get rid of the vB2 forums.

:banana:

[Deimos]

I agree VB2 should be ditched, maybe VB should think about making it a free product, on the condition that no support would be offered, except by maybe, volunteers.

[Darkfire122333]

Originally Posted by Diemos

I agree VB2 should be ditched, maybe VB should think about making it a free product, on the condition that no support would be offered, except by maybe, volunteers.

I agree with this, it would make it alot betterbecuase then you would have 2.x revived, and maybe have a seperate forum for v2 s as a free board? would make it so that they would want to use the payed versions more and would be a great publicity hype

[InsaneContender]

Originally Posted by Darkfire122333

I agree with this, it would make it alot betterbecuase then you would have 2.x revived, and maybe have a seperate forum for v2 s as a free board? would make it so that they would want to use the payed versions more and would be a great publicity hype

I doubt this would ever happen though, as vBulletin is pretty popular right now anyway. I mean, just look at the user-base! lol

I can see a lot of the vB2 stuff is suddenly gone, or is that just my imagination?

[Darkfire122333]

Well I do not think vBulletin should just drop something they spent alot of time creating, It is just a waste of time and thus making that time useless and could have been handled better. At least this way the board gets revived and can live a longer life as a remodeled board!