vb4.xx or vb3.8x for a new forum?

[fanyap]

In my opinion you would be crazy not to use vBulletin 4. Why would you want to develop a new site on vBulletin 3? Go with 4..........

[SnowBot]

Originally Posted by fanyap

In my opinion you would be crazy not to use vBulletin 4. Why would you want to develop a new site on vBulletin 3? Go with 4..........

But I guess what he is asking is why.....

[TheElf]

Originally Posted by KevinL

pretty much the only part of vb4 using new coding is the CMS..

If I remember well their decision was simple: They didn't want to replace everything at once. The new code (PHP and HTML / CSS) in vBulletin 4 is new coding, new standards, pretty modern.

But lets take a close look at templates: You want tables used for layout while search engines can penalize you for "not too user friendly tables" or want to use the nice div tag, and a CSS based layout?

When you have to move to newer versions of 4.X sooner or later, you want to face the problems with upgrading and how all templates, etc. should be redesigned, or be happy and say: I avoided working twice by choosing 4.X when I started to work on the site?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by TheElf

When you have to move to newer versions of 4.X sooner or later...

You see I disagree with that. I don't ever expect to upgrade to 4.x... Internet Brands has already started working in VB5... I imagine I'll go straight to 5 assuming it's a quality product otherwise look elsewhere.

[croportal]

Hello Guys,

Can u tell me what is your experience with SEO after upgrading to vbulletin 4.

Everybody talks about huge traffic drop. i want upgrade from 3.6.8 to vbulletin 4.1.3.

I have made everything on local version, and its work okay, but i am afraid to go online with this