Abandon vBulletin 2?

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by Smiry Kin's

is there any problems with having it there?. if not leave it..

some people like old school...

Old school eh? I was going to say ancient, but old school works

Anyways, I say go ahead and archive at least the vB2 forums, and then possibly the vB3 forums in a couple months once more end users have had time to convert to vB3.5.

[dethfire]

keep 3.0.x because I still use it on a forum that I have a massive hack that I can't upgrade to 3.5

[Bro_Joey_Gowdy]

I vote no.

Many people still use it and often still require help... perhaps restrict it to one support forum.

[MRGTB]

Originally Posted by Bro_Joey_Gowdy

I vote no.

Many people still use it and often still require help... perhaps restrict it to one support forum.

I think lots of people are still using vB 3.0 version for a lot of different reasons. Personally I prefer it over vB 3.5 which is why I don't upgrade and even installed vB 3.0 from fresh, even though I could have used the latest version of vB 3.5 instead.

The problem is, if you archived the vB 3.0 section now. People requiring help with these hacks for vB 3.0 may decide to start cloning the vB archive section over to there own sites as open topics up for discussion to try and get help on them, without asking the authors permission to do so - seeing as help for them here would no longer be available from other members or the author himself.

Meaning the only option open to vB 3.0 users would be to open them back up on there own sites. If it was done as way to try and force people to ugrade. I don't think that would work. As some people have already stated they have busy forums that have way to much hacking done to upgrade, and there not going to scrap there busy boards just to install vB 3.5 - loosing thre hard earned members list!

Also keep in mind that many dedicated vB 3.0 series users here might also see this site as pretty useless to them then.

[Xenon]

Ok, a statement: we don't plan to remove the 3.0 forums already.
I just wanted to know, if there are users who think it would be best to remove them as well.

but the actual question is more if we should remove the vb2 forums (that's why just that is in title), and i think the majority is for removing.
but keep voting

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Xenon

but the actual question is more if we should remove the vb2 forums

Erm, the question was should they be archived, which I assume means they will still be available for viewing. If you're talking about completely removing them then I change my vote.

[Xenon]

removing means archiving

like the vb1 forums, which are also removed from forumhome but still browsable in the archives, as well as some of the old template forums ^^

[AFMichael]

I say archive it. If people can still download the hacks, great! If they need support, read the hack thread!

[nitro]

Originally Posted by Xenon

removing means archiving

like the vb1 forums, which are also removed from forumhome but still browsable in the archives, as well as some of the old template forums ^^

The vb1 forums dont seem to be jumping out at me when I look in the archive, you sure they are veiwable ?

[Brad]

The vB1 hack forums are only viewable by the staff. When Stefan says 'archive' he's talking about our private archives.