vBulletin 3.7.0 Beta 4 Released

[TPOCJames]

Friendly warning: MEMBERINFO CSS has changed.

[Freesteyelz]

Thanks, TPOCJames.

I expected anything MEMBERINFO to be changed so I'm prepared. It is the few areas of vB I didn't tweak much in anticipation that it's still in production. More likely I won't commit much to MEMBERINFO until 3.7 goes Gold.

I am now backing up my forum directory...Everything else has been backed up.

[Zachariah]

fun fun fun

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by nexialys

i would prefer to see the SN stuff seperate like the blog is... i do not need expensive profiles on most of my forums... same for bookmarking... a complete useless thing in 95% of my clients which are using the forum for local or private support...

As i see it, 3.7 is providing the basic building blocks for true SN in the standard package. I would not be surprised if there will be many modifications building upon these blocks, and maybe even (this is just a personal hunch) official addon products. I think it is a great move to provide the buildingblocks in the standard package.

[Freesteyelz]

Interesting insight, Marco.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

My response is just based on personal observations and interpretations.

[Freesteyelz]

It's rather speculative at this point but it makes for good conversation...Which people have been doing already. Though, if that is (and again, mere speculation) the direction of vB my guess is that these addons/products will start being released before vB 4.0...And more likely within this year.

[Dream]

They will need more manpower to make new add-ons.

Kier said they would move to 4.0 development after 3.7, which would be the last major 3.x version. I'm very impressed by what they accomplished, but I can still think of some features vB 3.x needed. Overall the 3.x branch wasn't developed to its full potential, and vB.com suggestion's forum has thousands of good suggestions.

I don't know Jelsoft sales figures, but if they can only hire 5 developers maybe it's not too much. (yet hopefully)

Looking back, I expected vBulletin would have more stuff by now. More stuff for the end user, from an admin standpoint I think vBulletin is perfect. (edit: also from a coding and coder standpoint)

Also looking back when 3.5 was released, I thought there was going to be many more quality mods by now than it has. Maybe it's me and I'm expecting too much, I know better by now.

So Marco, don't expect too much.

[vBVision]

I hope that some bugs are also fixed, particularly a bug connected with regimage table.

[mihai11]

I don't need any more features. I need to GOLD version ready yesterday.