Don't know how to code, is vB still for me

[globofan]

Don't get vB man. it sucks. theres no shop mod. i got vB its a rip off. and i can do the exact same with SMF

google smf forums its free and much better bro.

[Digital Jedi]

The shop mod is under development. And I administrate two SMF forums. It's free alright. And you get what you pay for. No, you cannot do the same thing with SMF.

[FearlessWeeder]

Don't get vB man. it sucks. theres no shop mod. i got vB its a rip off. and i can do the exact same with SMF

Based on your comments, I suspect you weren't in a position to read my posts in which I stated vB would be the software I would be purchasing. My decision is final. If you are in a position to share any knowledge or experience you have working with the software of my choice, it would be most appreciated however I have no desire to discuss other products. No product is perfect and presumably each has strengths and weaknesses, I fully understand that. I'll take my chances with the vB. I believe it has the best support and is therefore the best fit for me.

Incidentally globofan, I am a female.

Have a nice summer everyone. Must work on that TOS and address other issues, You've all been great.

[Dismounted]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

I beg to disagree with you Dismounted. The built in function is "CAPTHCA OR Q&A", while NoSpam provides "CAPTHCA AND Q&A" capability, which from what I've seen has been more effective then one or the other.

TBH, both is a bit overkill. But that's just my opinion.

Originally Posted by Hex_legend

Powerpoint use .ppt

And .pptx .

[FearlessWeeder]

I had to look that one up on the properties of one of my PowerPoint presentations. I believe I understand. My Microsoft Office Suite for Word, Excel, Access, etc is 2007. In subsequent releases of their Office Suite, they used an extension of .doc for Word but as of the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite, they began using a new extension of .docx. In other words, if I wanted to enable PowerPoint presentations, I'd have to somehow insert .ppt & .pptx somewhere so that members who are now working with newer versions would also be able to share their work. Would I be correct?

Would it behoove me to purchase this vB software right now so I could start plugging these things in as they arise and are fresh on my mind? Or, is there a way to bookmark my threads here so I can refer back to them in a few months? I'm concerned about forgetting all these little things.

I wanted to hold off purchasing to try to better manage my money by staggering what would be due and when. I believe there is a renewal fee to vB that is $50 a year to cover upgrades/updates and presumably that will be due on the anniversary of the original purchase date. I'm really trying hard to avoid clumps of little bills coming due in the months of July, August, September, December, and April as those are particularly horrible months for us. Not that $50 is unreasonable but we have some big bills due in those months plus all of our regular monthly household bills and all these little ones add up so darn fast.

[Digital Jedi]

Yeah, there's a field in the Admin Control Panel once you install Downloads II that lets you add the all the file extensions you want to allow your users to upload. It also adds permission based settings to your User Groups in case you want to limit the download/upload access to only certain User Groups.

I'm not sure if you have access to the Tag option under Modification Settings within the mod threads. It might be something you don't get until you purchase a license, but you can check. You should, at the very least, be able to add any thread here to your subscriptions list.

One of the nice things about vB is once you do buy a owned license, you have access to all the current upgrades for one year. But even once the year is over, aside from being able to run your forum indefinitely, you'll still have access to all versions of vB that existed up to the point your license expired. So you don't have to renew if money is tight when the license expires. You'll still have access to member support, both .com and .org forums, and any upgrades that where made available during the time your license was active. And that way you can wait until your in a better position to pay the renewal cost, and gain access to the most current versions that came out during the expiry period. So you might want to take that into consideration when holding off buying.

[FearlessWeeder]

I lost the area that I found that was loaded with Q&A. What did I do wrong. I know I found it once and spent a heck of a lot of time reading in it and now I can't seem to locate that area of the forums. Link please.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Are you talking about our Articles sections found in the top tab-menu?

[FearlessWeeder]

Sorry, I made a mistake. Some of the Q&A's were here within the articles and some were at the vBulletin.com site.

[FearlessWeeder]

Dismounted- we have learned you were right on the money regarding the built in recaptcha feature as opposed to NoSpam for entry level 3.7.4 users. NoSpam may very well be the better option for earlier versions.

AME has been added however I'm not quite getting the hang of that. To a back burner with that.

We have some concerns regarding the FractalizeR: VBulletin Antivirus.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=187482
It won't be installed. Great concept and wonderful features though.

Are there any other hacks out there that are more stable that are capable of scanning attachments for viruses? OK to suggest one from a third party that charges a fee.

As far as dial-up users go, the only time they'd run into a problem is if they loaded a page with a video on it, and that's only if it's from a site that auto-loads large files. I've done 150+ definitions for various media sites, and I don't know of one yet that does that. Most video hosting sites accommodate for dial-up users, and you'd simply be embedding videos hosted on their servers. As a former dial-up user, I can testify to that.

Although I did not understand what you shared at the time, I do now. Good information.

editing to add-
We did not install vBCredits. After careful consideration, we decided it was too much too fast. Not that it wasn't a great suggestion, it would have put us into a tailspin figuring out what the heck to do with it. Definitely something to add down the road. All the others, save the FractalizeR: VBulletin Antivirus, have been installed plus the miserable users hack.