I am currently using vBulletin 5 Beta 19, I was wondering how to show on the forum home page how many people are view a particular forums, just like digitalpoint does, like it says "Google" forum "(73 viewing)" Someone pleas help, thank you in advance!!!
well that really sucks, I mean when you buy a new version you expect the same features plus additional features, not removing them geez! I appreciate your reply.
Yeah, agreed... they also removed some fairly important things like paid subscriptions, user notes and infractions. lol
well that's ridiculous... do you know if they removed the user registration referrals?? I cannot seem to find any options for it. I am creating a contest for the users with the most new user referrals but i cannot find the option to put a referral on the registration page to type in a members username.
I don't know for certain, but if you can't find it, I would suspect it's gone. Actually, after looking at their "official" missing feature list, it's pretty extensive.. haha https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/407848-Missing-Feature-Status Also gone: FAQ system, thread view count, go to last post in a thread, subscribed thread view, find all posts by a user, and the lots of other stuff. From that list, it seems upgrading would be detrimental to any site simply because of lost functionality.
yeah, its starting to look like I have just wasted $250 on crap, I mean these are features that i really need, now I am thinking if i should downgrade back to 4, I mean this seriously pisses me off. I really do appreciate your help, your very knowledgeable.
Yeah... there's no way in hell I would run vB5. Someone could offer me $1,000,000 to install it here, and I would tell them to piss off. lol The ability for my site to actually FUNCTION is worth more to me than $1M.
I agree with you 100 %. Now i just have to figure out how to re-install vbulletin 4 and not lose any members or posts or anything and I have a feeling that its gonna be difficult and that if it can even be done? But yeah dont install it here or you will piss me off too haha!!
As I suspect many will as they "upgrade" to vB5 and realize how bad it is AND that they can't downgrade.
I had the same problem with my forums, but It was when I upgraded from 3.8 to 4.0. That was the worst think did in my life. My forums were down for over a month. I couldn't sleep no more. I lost all the plugins and Mods I installed because they were not compatible with VBulettin 4.0 Just like Shawn said. I will not upgrade no more. I'm happy with what I have now and I'm sticking to it. One question: did you by any chance do any backup before you upgraded to the new VB 5?
Oh man, now I am really glad that I decided not to spend another 250 bucks to upgrade. If I had done it, users of my forum would have suffered more than I thought. (Of course that I am a lazy bastard who does not read anything and just hits a button with subconcious expectation that something will go horribly wrong.)