Will Most Mods Have To Be Re-Written for 4.0?

[Alisa Lindsay]

Is it possible to buy the upgrade and not install it immediately? I have two mods that our board simply cannot live without. One is a total custom mod and the other is Psionic's Quick Account Switch.

[DeanLag]

Yes, Alisa.
You can pre-purchase vB4.0 now and install it in 2 years time as your license will still be valid.

[Alisa Lindsay]

Oh good... I just don't want to disrupt my writers by losing a couple of the Mods they depend upon.

Thanks and Regards,

Alisa

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by James Birkett

ibproarcade uses templates so it's going to need to be modified before it works on vB4.

Lynne, are all of the old hooks still in vB4 or did they remove some?

Many of the old hooks are there, however, since some of the coding was completely redone in some areas, you may find some hooks removed and new ones in their place.

[Helmut71]

what about Downloads II and Radio and TV add on?

[steven s]

Originally Posted by Alisa Lindsay

Is it possible to buy the upgrade and not install it immediately? I have two mods that our board simply cannot live without. One is a total custom mod and the other is Psionic's Quick Account Switch.

You can always buy or renew your license and not use vB4.

I also have some most have mods, particularly anti-spam mods.
I also need vBadvanced.

[realdx]

I have this feeling that we are gonna see for a loooong time 3.8.4 boards around..

[AfterWorldForum]

Originally Posted by Lynne

There is at least one product I can think of off-hand that worked with no changes - and *tons* of one-liner plugins I've written for testing things. And there are several mods that needed the most minor of tweaks to work.

Lynne,

Would you please be so kind as to elaborate on exactly which mod you tried? None of us have any information whatsoever, and I'm sure that we're all plenty worried.

I installed the Template Manager mod in the hopes that will allow me to continue running my forum as seamlessly as possible, and to ensure the number of edits I have to do are minimized to single locations (and centralized), and still, I'm worried.

Thanks in advance

Peter

[James Birkett]

Something that might ease your mind:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/blog.php?b=2373

Make sure you click the thumbnail also.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by AfterWorldForum

Lynne,

Would you please be so kind as to elaborate on exactly which mod you tried? None of us have any information whatsoever, and I'm sure that we're all plenty worried

I don't know that I'm at liberty to say, at this point. However, I can say that if the plugins in the product eval a template, it will need to be modified (templates get evaled differently now). And, if the product has any templates in it, those will have to be modified.