vBulletin has announced it's much awaited publishing suite as well as the forums 4.0 and it's up and running at vBulletin.com. While I don't like their new pricing structure which is obviously expensive, I do like the upcoming features (although a little late) and the design. What's your take on vB 4.0?
you know, I'm starting to notice that the most controversial thing people are really complaining about is the license, even you. However the new license structure seems fair so knock it off already.
Where did you get that information from. In the past you paid a annual licence fee; now you pay a one off fee and no annual fee - the costs are probably about the same!
I had one leased and one owned license that I renewed / bought respectively just days before the new v4 announcement so definitely forking another 130 for each upgrade didn't come cheap for me.
I like it so far and can't wait to use it on our forums. I pre-ordered the suit to catch the sale. If you think about it, even at 200$ for a year, it's less then 2 packs of smokes a month.. The price isn't that bad, I don't care for how iNet came in and changed everything up, but that's how it goes. because they don't see as well?
WAY too many social features to be called a "forum" in my opinion... for those NOT wanting the social networking aspect, it's nothing but bloat.
There are a lot of features there that I don't use that I'm paying for. Calendar, COPPA moderation, multi-language support, etc. I would rather have stuff there and not use them than want something and have it not be there.
There certainly is logic in that... however, it's still un-needed bloat, and while some is needed, expected, or even wanted, that does not explain the better majority of it. Not to mention that is what plugins, addons, mods, and hacks are for.
vBulletin has launched a demo of it's CMS here which IMO is confusing -- guess I will have a hard time porting from vbaCMPS to this one.
I love new Vbulletin 4.0 with CMS. Now you can build your website around the forum with out other support like Vbadvanced etc.
Guys will the new vb take up more server resources or is it got some cache type features which will help reduce the load
Yea but a forum with soo many non forum features i guess like Photo Albums, Groups etc i dont think this is normally a part of forum if u see punbb that can be called a pure forum.. this is more like a social networking script..