vBulletin 4 Series Development Update

[smacklan]

Keir isn't Project Manager at Jelsoft any longer...some new guy at IB is and is heading this up...lovely turn of events that don't paint a rosy picture no matter how much of a fanboy/fangirl you are of vB.

[Lizard King]

That is very sad news. As i posted at vb.com i definately will start checking other solutions more as i dont trust IB guys abilities on building a software like vB. When i think about the major events after Ib take over Jelsoft , I can't even find one single good point. So i believe the best option is to find a better solution.

/me raise hand... HEY LIZ, I'M HERE !!!

[Shazz]

The first step in SEO for Jelsoft lol

[Shelley_c]

Great stuff jelsoft finally implementing seo. I won't have to purchase vbseo. Boy, was i the smart one holding off all these years

[domainmagick]

all these improvements sound great - im excited to be started a couple new forums as these changes are being implemented... thanks Jsoft!

[theringlord]

I understand the AllAlbums add in will be part of 4.0. This is good news. There is however one VERY LARGE hole in this feature that I think a lot of us would like to see fixed. The pics that are posted in a thread NEED to be the same pic that is in an album. Otherwise the albums are useless. People upload pics to show their stuff in a thread. If they can't show the pic in a thread and only in an album the album is useless.

So someone goes to make a post and wants a pic in the thread. That pic should go into the post AND be in their album. In a perfect world that pic would also have a category selected from a list. Then the pic can be viewed in the post, in the album for that user and in an album of the name listed from the pull down category. The pic is stores once and a database reference in 3 spots---- sounds easy to me.

Pretty please - cream and sugar on top!!!

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by theringlord

I understand the AllAlbums add in will be part of 4.0. This is good news. There is however one VERY LARGE hole in this feature that I think a lot of us would like to see fixed. The pics that are posted in a thread NEED to be the same pic that is in an album. Otherwise the albums are useless. People upload pics to show their stuff in a thread. If they can't show the pic in a thread and only in an album the album is useless.

So someone goes to make a post and wants a pic in the thread. That pic should go into the post AND be in their album. In a perfect world that pic would also have a category selected from a list. Then the pic can be viewed in the post, in the album for that user and in an album of the name listed from the pull down category. The pic is stores once and a database reference in 3 spots---- sounds easy to me.

Pretty please - cream and sugar on top!!!

Are you suggesting attachments also going into the user's albums upon upload? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't attachments and albums stored seperatly?

[Rene Kriest]

Originally Posted by theringlord

I understand the AllAlbums add in will be part of 4.0. This is good news. There is however one VERY LARGE hole in this feature that I think a lot of us would like to see fixed. The pics that are posted in a thread NEED to be the same pic that is in an album. Otherwise the albums are useless. People upload pics to show their stuff in a thread. If they can't show the pic in a thread and only in an album the album is useless.

So someone goes to make a post and wants a pic in the thread. That pic should go into the post AND be in their album. In a perfect world that pic would also have a category selected from a list. Then the pic can be viewed in the post, in the album for that user and in an album of the name listed from the pull down category. The pic is stores once and a database reference in 3 spots---- sounds easy to me.

Pretty please - cream and sugar on top!!!

100% agree on that one.

Waste of server space

Also consider this example: in times of SQL there is no need to waste server space by uploading the same thing twice if not really necessary. 10 times a 5mb picture produces some sweet 50mb overload - and server space is expensive.

I think that vb is fighting irish with its legacy - the will to be a tool for geeks 1st.

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Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Are you suggesting attachments also going into the user's albums upon upload? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't attachments and albums stored seperatly?

As far as pictures are concerned his point is valid.

As long as there is no real media library like in Wordpress I would handle mp3s etc. different.

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Originally Posted by Shelley_c

Great stuff jelsoft finally implementing seo. I won't have to purchase vbseo. Boy, was i the smart one holding off all these years

Well, I doubt that vb is going to put in the elaborated SEO stuff vbSEO features so far. Usually by vb implemented features which are available for years via addons are only basic features in comparison to its competitor.

Maybe vb got the edge over vbSEO because they develop the main code, but if you really stick to Google's SEO guide which take basic things into account you have to change more than only enabling mod_rewrite.

I am excited what the new SEO features will look like.

[Mr. Hoddz]

From 3.6 to 3.7 to 3.8 in such a short time... and they have been working on 4.0. Why?! Why not stick with 3.6 and then just go straight to 4.0 but that's besides the point!

Anyway... I hope that when they bring this 4.0 in they allow you to just keep Members, Forums and Posts... nothing else. I don't want to import all the other settings... just the Members, Forums and Posts.
If not I can see myself getting a little frustrated but I'm sure it will all be well worth it. I'm looking forward to seeing the new "look" that 4.0 will have... hopefully more "web2.0" than vB3 series.

I'm glad I renewed my licence so I can get 4.0, and hopefully from the first (beta) release (early Q2 209 I hope) until the first (stable) release I hope that is only a maximum of two months. I think alot of people will be on board testing and submitting bug reports so that should speed things up I would expect.

Thanks Jelsoft... you reign supreme yet again!