vBulletin 4.0?

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What features could this board easily have that it doesn't?

I take it y'all can see the video, I see the code but I can't see shit after I post.

WTF is that about?

Mayne they on vBulletin 4.0, the version we using is 4+ years old.
 
A whole bunch of shit.

All I need is a darker interface and the ability to tag members to call their attention to a thread of interest (vice versa) and auto embed for videos.

I'm on several other sites, no lie...y'all missing out.

In fact, vBulletin is on version 5.0.5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBulletin#vBulletin_3
 
HNIC should set up a fund to raise $250 for upgrades. If people have so many complaints, maybe we should make more of an effort and contribution to improve our "home".

Hope y'all ain't expecting my uncle to use any of the monetary contributions provided to him once a year on this shit. No sir. Not gonna happen.

Open your hearts and your wallets fellas. :yes:

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HNIC should set up a fund to raise $250 for upgrades. If people have so many complaints, maybe we should make more of an effort and contribution to improve our "home".

Hope y'all ain't expecting my uncle to use any of the monetary contributions provided to him once a year on this shit. No sir. Not gonna happen.

Open your hearts and your wallets fellas. :yes:

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Man we're already paying an access fee that lacks justification or return on the dollar. Now your talking about additional monetary contributions. Get a grip! :hmm:
 
Open your pockets ( purses for some :hmm: ) fellas.

Your donation is only for access to the main forum, PMs, maintenance. It doesn't included extras and upgrades.

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A whole bunch of shit.

All I need is a darker interface and the ability to tag members to call their attention to a thread of interest (vice versa) and auto embed for videos.

I'm on several other sites, no lie...y'all missing out.

In fact, vBulletin is on version 5.0.5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBulletin#vBulletin_3

That would be cool. Sounds like it needs a safeguard against Acur-tyopes abusing it but that sounds nice.
 
That's 12 donations! You expect him to invest membership dues in making the board better?

man fuck that dude...I had no problem plunking down $20 but here we are w/ the same fucking problems/database errors w/e...nigga just cheap and stubborn
 
man fuck that dude...I had no problem plunking down $20 but here we are w/ the same fucking problems/database errors w/e...nigga just cheap and stubborn
I was cool with ten but the general principle of the "donation" requirement doubling with zero improvements over, what, four years at least? :smh:
 
The "fabric" of php is the real issue.

Updating this board is not necessarily a good thing.

The eval() function is the first thing a novice attacker will try.:smh:

...and it only gets worse

The Windows ecosystem of computing only leads to the conclusion that
the latest is the greatest. In fact, that is the worst decision to
make when it comes to computing.

Sed, grep, awk and many others are still hanging around, doing
their jobs, because... they work!
 
If HNIC was locked up for 10 years on Dec 13, 2004-- when the board switched over-- and the payments were automatically made, would a damn thing be different without him ten years later?
 
Hnic is a awesome businessman. The way he structured this with the whole donation thing is commendable. :yes:

Y'all want a upgrade... Come outta pocket. We ain't tryna hear these complaints. If $250 ain't nothing, why don't y'all ballers link up and make something happen? :yes:

Your yearly donation is what gets you in... It don't include any commodities. It's for renting your screen name... It don't include gas summabitches.

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From what I remember, updating the board would wipe it. Seems odd to me, but what about archiving the board and updating to the new VBulletin. If the old board can be restored, cool. If not, provide a link to an archive or something.

This version of VBulletin came out when folks were still using modems. Shit is sad.
 
The "fabric" of php is the real issue.

Updating this board is not necessarily a good thing.

The eval() function is the first thing a novice attacker will try.:smh:

...and it only gets worse

The Windows ecosystem of computing only leads to the conclusion that
the latest is the greatest. In fact, that is the worst decision to
make when it comes to computing.

Sed, grep, awk and many others are still hanging around, doing
their jobs, because... they work!

I overstand this... :cool:

From what I remember, updating the board would wipe it. Seems odd to me, but what about archiving the board and updating to the new VBulletin. If the old board can be restored, cool. If not, provide a link to an archive or something.

This version of VBulletin came out when folks were still using modems. Shit is sad.

I believe he said the only thing that would be lost was the uploads of the porn links but them shits dead anyways...this had to be about 2010 or 2009 when he asked for a consensus.
 
Last time they tried to upgrade this board.....man, just leave it be...
 
I may try it again, the last upgrade was a total failure. If you remember we tried to upgrade to 4.0.3 Shit was so fucked
up I had to drop back down to what we have now. Also I didn't do the upgrade, I paid the vbulletin people to do the upgrade
for me. Maybe it's better now, I'm willing to give it a try after Christmas, since you are so pissed.

You can tell me all day about what other boards are doing and all I can say is good for them, but the shit didn't perform for
me. Lastly it's not a money issue, it's a trust issue. The same energy that you individuals are using to tell me how fucked up
I am is the same energy that the members were using to tell me to go back to the original board after the upgrade to 4.0
went so bad. I'm not the only board that hasn't upgraded, vbulletin.org is still on 3.6 and they are part of the VB team. The
shit isn't stable, but I'll do an upgrade for you Mofo after Christmas, and we will hope you are right.
Hell I want you to be right

HNIC


Last time they tried to upgrade this board.....man, just leave it be...
 
I may try it again, the last upgrade was a total failure. If you remember we tried to upgrade to 4.0.3 Shit was so fucked
up I had to drop back down to what we have now. Also I didn't do the upgrade, I paid the vbulletin people to do the upgrade
for me. Maybe it's better now, I'm willing to give it a try after Christmas, since you are so pissed.

You can tell me all day about what other boards are doing and all I can say is good for them, but the shit didn't perform for
me. Lastly it's not a money issue, it's a trust issue. The same energy that you individuals are using to tell me how fucked up
I am is the same energy that the members were using to tell me to go back to the original board after the upgrade to 4.0
went so bad. I'm not the only board that hasn't upgraded, vbulletin.org is still on 3.6 and they are part of the VB team. The
shit isn't stable, but I'll do an upgrade for you Mofo after Christmas, and we will hope you are right.
Hell I want you to be right

HNIC

Bro take your time. I have another board open in another tab that runs vBulletin® Version 4.2.0 and despite not having as high traffic of page reads and members BGOL loads way faster. While there are quite a few functions I like there is a gang of shit I don't like. Even Planet Suzy won't upgrade to 4.0 yet.
 
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That would be cool. Sounds like it needs a safeguard against Acur-tyopes abusing it but that sounds nice.
No chance of that happening but tagging will do more good than harm because if you notice over the years, only the same few thousand users actually post. The rest lurk out of fear of the greatness that is Ock! :lol: So odds are, only users that are cool with your font will tag you.
I may try it again, the last upgrade was a total failure. If you remember we tried to upgrade to 4.0.3 Shit was so fucked
up I had to drop back down to what we have now. Also I didn't do the upgrade, I paid the vbulletin people to do the upgrade
for me. Maybe it's better now, I'm willing to give it a try after Christmas, since you are so pissed.

You can tell me all day about what other boards are doing and all I can say is good for them, but the shit didn't perform for
me. Lastly it's not a money issue, it's a trust issue. The same energy that you individuals are using to tell me how fucked up
I am is the same energy that the members were using to tell me to go back to the original board after the upgrade to 4.0
went so bad. I'm not the only board that hasn't upgraded, vbulletin.org is still on 3.6 and they are part of the VB team. The
shit isn't stable, but I'll do an upgrade for you Mofo after Christmas, and we will hope you are right.
Hell I want you to be right

HNIC

Well as opposed to a full upgrade, can you add extra features to the one you have now or it don't work like that HNIC?

See I wanna tag this man but I can't! I guess I'll let the thread die until he comes back to reply. :rolleyes:
 
updating vb is low on the list imo. getting more bandwidth is number one so we don't have db errors during high traffic times like breaking news or game times.
 
If it ain't broke...

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I know an assload of niggas and a few bitches that NEED to be on here for the resources but they ain't paying for it because the trial turned them off. :smh:
 
watch it be a half ass attempt to upgrade the board w/ no chance of success...everybody begs for the old board back again and he feels justified in not doing upgrades for another 10 years...the price will be $50 then too :lol:
 
BGOL.us ain't the only forum with members complaining about the old versions and with members warning about upgrading to the newer versions.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1506563

Do _not_ go with vB 4 or vB 5.

Seriously. If you care about your forums, do not use them. They are a world of hurt.

XenForo or Invision are way better options. The fact that vB is owned by a completely morally wrong company is one reason, but the software is just terribly coded. vB5 still has loads of vB3 code, just made even more of a mess.

I own and run a lot of forums - we saw massive losses in numbers with vB4. vB5 will be even worse as the entire thread and post id scheme is rewritten with no way to import old numbers, so every thread ID will become invalid. This is one of the major problems with the software, and they have already said it wont be changed. Basically upgrading is pretty much going to kill a site in seconds. Every single link to every single thread becomes a 404 - and it's not a simple case of remapping id's or mod_rewriting things to the correct location.

Its like the newer versions 4.0 and 5.0 are best for new forums and if you started with 3.0 you better stay with that bitch or all links will be dead.

Like I said, I could give a fuck but it is past time for a black skin/theme and thread likes/dislikes (cuts down on postings saying such) and tags.
 
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